Some inconvenient truths about an inconvenient subject

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 […]
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