Some inconvenient truths about an inconvenient subject

By: Rob Schofield

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: September 15, 2026

Words: 856

Last Updated: 3 days, 8 hours ago

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There are many reasons that a heck of a lot of people in 21st Century North Carolina – a modern, wealthy, high-tech society of more than 11 million – regularly face a harsh reality usually associated with impoverished third world nations: hunger and malnutrition.

Topping the list: poverty. More than 12% of North Carolinians live below the absurdly low official poverty line. When one looks at what it really takes to get by, the …

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