Steven J Coker

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area United States

Founder-CEO, by his hands of North Carolina, Inc

Hunger in North Carolina Statistics: Between 2010-14 North Carolina regularly ranked among the top ten states with the highest percentage of citizens experiencing food shortages. NC has several cities with some the highest levels of food insecurity in the nation: Asheville, Greensboro, HighPoint and Winston-Salem. Approximately 160,000 different people in NC receive emergency food assistance in any given week. This is equivalent to feeding nearly every resident of Asheville, Chapel Hill and Elizabeth City every week. North Carolina ranks in the ten worst states in the percentage of children under 18 who are lacking food on a regular basis. 81% of NC households receiving food assistance...