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As America enters a period of great uncertainty – with a new president, a stumbling economy, rising foreign financial powers, energy challenges, and an unstable world – it’s never been so important to "Learn More" about how local communities – like Edgecombe County, like your county – are dealing with these immense changes.
That’s what Patchwork Nation and Patchwork North Carolina are about.
Patchwork Nation
Patchwork Nation is a reporting project that aims to explore what is happening in the United States by examining different kinds of communities over time. The effort divides America's 3,141 counties into 12 community types based on certain demographic characteristics, such as income level, racial composition, employment and religion. Launched as a Christian Science Monitor project, the latest incarnation of Patchwork Nation will evolve to cover more communities and more topics, with a focus on the economy and how it affects different sorts of communities. This version of the project represents an unprecedented collaboration between the Christian Science Monitor, the NewsHour and local public broadcasting stations like UNC-TV.
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