Martin Eakes: Economic Inequality and Beginning of Self Help from key worker jobs Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 74 sec
✓ Published: 25-Mar-2015

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In 1980, the economy of North Carolina looked much like the Rust Belt, where we had more industrial shutdowns in North Carolina than any other state in the country. So the state was going through a massive economic transformation from manufacturing to a service economy, which it’s still doing, but really was accented in the early 1980s. So when a zipper factory or a casket factory or a textile factory or a furniture factory was about to shut down, the employees or the owners would call us and