Frances Fox Piven stirs things up and she is just fine with that. The professor, writer and activist has been studying the nature of poverty and inequality for decades and she is an outspoken advocate for radical change in our country. National pundits of all political stripes have praised or decried her work but Dr. Piven unabashedly declares that the current growth of poverty and inequality is undermining our American democracy. She says there are historic solutions to this inequality and she will share them with us when Charlotte Talks.
Charlotte is a bank town – known for banks in the traditional sense – like Bank of America and Wells Fargo that offer checking accounts, credit cards and loans, if you can qualify. But in the last week, a very different kind of bank opened in Charlotte offering what's known as microloans to small businesspeople who couldn't qualify for a traditional one.
We'll meet one of the leaders of an organization using an innovative strategy to fight global poverty. Jon Mitchell of CARE USA says that the technology that we take for granted in America, like cell phones, can be used to help end poverty in developing countries. We'll talk about the process of getting technology into the hands of the world's poorest communities and how this will help them better their situation and more, when Charlotte Talks.
Poverty is one the rise in the Carolinas. The Census Bureau announced Thursday morning that almost 100,000 more people were driven into poverty last year in North and South Carolina.
