Former Veep Nom leads Center on Poverty for UNC
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has tapped former U.S. Sentaor and vice presidential candidate John Edwards to lead its newly formed Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity will be a nonpartisan initiative, bringing together UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and other national public policy experts to examine innovative and practical ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class. The center will have an advisory committee of senior faculty representing multiple disciplines across campus. In addition to leading the center, Edwards also will serve as a guest lecturer on campus.
The new position is a natural for Edwards, considering that he often talked about poverty on the campaign trail. Edwards spent six years in the U.S. Senate. In that time, he championed policy initiatives such as raising the minimum wage, expanding the earned income tax credit, creating matching savings accounts for low-income families, and providing incentives for teachers to teach in low-income schools.
