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State of the South
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MDC research reports are available for download at no cost as a resource to partners and leaders focused on creating a South where all people thrive.
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Education
A Community Response for Partway Home Students
America’s Shame, America’s Hope: Twelve Million Youth at Risk
Disconnected Youth in the Triangle: An Ominous Problem Hidden in Plain Sight
Made in Durham: Building an Education to Career System
Right from the Start: An Institutional Perspective on Developmental Education Reform
The Community College as Change Agent
Transferring Success: Structuring community college transfer to support upward economic mobility
What We Know: Lessons From the Developmental Education Initiative
Employment
Lessons from MDC’s Career Pathways for a Green South
Moving on Up: Transportation and Economic Mobility
North Carolina JobLink Career Center Feedback: An Appraisal of Progress
Workforce Development in the South: An Examination of Trends
Economic Security
A Prosperity Grid for North Carolina: Connecting Households and Communities to Economic Opportunity
Expanding Economic and Educational Opportunity in Distressed Rural Areas
Making Economic Growth Work for Poor Women: Women in Electronics
NC VetsCorps: Supporting Economically Vulnerable Veterans and Military Families
North Carolina’s Economic Imperative: Building an Infrastructure of Opportunity
Strengthening the Rural Carolinas: A Conceptual Framework for the Program for the Rural Carolinas
The Only Way Out is Up: How MDC helped Danville, Va., chart a new vision for its future
Time to Get Cookin' in the South
Strategic Philanthropy
A Time of Reckoning: Testing the Will for Change in the Mississippi Delta
Philanthropy as the South's Passing Gear: Fulfilling the Promise
Strategies for Funders: Community Colleges and Rural Development