Our Republican North Carolina Governor, his Republican Senate and House Have just decided to F the poor.
A committee for the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors issued a much-anticipated draft report on centers and institutes Wednesday, recommending that three centers on university campuses be shut down in the near future.
Among the three recommended for closure was the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.
The Center receives no state funding so this is not a cost cutting move.
However, its director, tenured law professor Gene Nichol, has rankled some Republican state leaders and conservative groups in recent years by penning editorials decrying how state policies are failing impoverished North Carolina. link
Thin skinned anyone?
Below is the video: