Youth & Education
Children in households with incomes below 185% of federal poverty level qualify for this service at school.
What is free or reduced lunch? (Students also eligible if household receives SNAP or TANF.)
Beginning Dec. 1, more than 600,000 North Carolinians will be able to apply for health coverage through this insurance program for low-income individuals and families.
What is Medicaid?
$7.25 or $2.13
What is the minimum wage in NC for hourly work? For tipped employees?
"[T]here shall be no imprisonment for debt in this State." - quote is in this document.
What is the NC Constitution?
This national program provides heating and cooling assistance to low-income households. (In 2022, roughly 6.7 million.)
What is the Low-income Energy Assistance Plan?
18% of American children, 33% children of color.
What percentage of children live below the federal poverty threshold?
Chronic illnesses, shorter life expectancies, increased exposure to toxic substances, little or no health insurance coverage.
What are some health impacts of poverty?
$57,617 Nationwide; 50,894 Statewide
What is the median household income in US, versus NC?
Sanction imposed for violating a court order and frequently the charge serving as the basis for a person to be locked up for inability to pay court debt.
What is Criminal Contempt?
Lumberton and Roanoke Rapids
What NC cities were named as two of the three poorest cities in America?
The percentage of families with children living in poverty with at least one full-time worker.
What is 64?
1.5 million North Carolinians or 15%.
NC has the ___ highest percentage of low-wage employees in the nation.
What is the second?
In 35 of NC's counties, this office is staffed by attorneys whose function is to represent indigent people in civil cases in which there is a right to counsel.
What is a Public Defenders office?
Charlotte is ranked 50th out of 50.
What was Charlotte's ranking in economic mobility for children?
22% statewide - 42% Hispanic, 38% Black and Native.
What percentage of children in NC are classified as poor?
The number of residents in NC who have no health care coverage.
What is near 1 million people? (10.4% of the population)
13% of North Carolinian Latines.
How percentage of Latines, documented or not, have a college degree in NC?
400% increase.
How much have court fees increased in North Carolina over the past 20 years?
One of five counties in low wealth districts which filed a lawsuit, Leandro v. State of NC, arguing that their schools did not have enough money to provide equal education to children.
What are Hoke, Halifax, Robeson, Vance, or Cumberland counties?
The percentage of schools that received D or F on the NC public school report card system where 4 of 5 students quality for free and reduced lunch subsidies.
Over 80%. (Over 90% of schools with less than 20% low-income students received A or B.)
61 of NC's 100 counties.
How many counties have food insecurity of over 15%?
27 total students.
How many undocumented students did a study find in the entire UNC college/university system?
80- 90% of those charged qualify.
Nationally, how many people charged with a criminal offense are poor enough to qualify for a court-appointed lawyer?
Winston Salem (9th), Greensboro (6th), Charlotte (4th), Raleigh (3rd).
What four NC cities were ranked nationally as having sharpest increases in concentrated poverty?