North Carolina Scores Poorly On Financial Security For Residents

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published November 19, 2015 at 12:12 PM EST

Host Frank Stasio talks with the Corporation's Carl Rist; Christopher Gergen, CEO of Forward Impact; and Glyndola Massenburg-Beasley, president of the Durham Regional Financial Center

A recent Assets and Opportunities scorecard released by the Corporation for Enterprise Development shows North Carolina lagging behind other states in providing a stable financial landscape for asset building and growth.

The scorecard examined 67 factors in areas of healthcare, wealth building and financial opportunities. The shortcomings are even worse for the state's minority citizens.

Host Frank Stasio talks with the Corporation's Carl Rist; Christopher Gergen, CEO of Forward Impact; and Glyndola Massenburg-Beasley, president of the Durham Regional Financial Center.

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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