In the Media: GOP Confronts Rural-Urban Divide

18 March 2015 10:30AM

There exists a “deep divide” in North Carolina — and we’re not talking about Blue Devils versus Tarheels. The state’s urban and rural counties can be seen as “two North Carolinas,” the former thriving and the latter languishing.

In an effort to mitigate that gap, North Carolina Senate Republicans are working on legislation that would shift millions in sales and tax revenues from richer counties to poorer areas across the state, according to The News & Observer.

Duke Economics Professor Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato has studied the effect of government spending at the local level. In an interview with The News & Observer, he said the GOP plan “would tend to decrease income inequality in North Carolina.”

Read the full article on The News & Observer.