North Carolina's public university board is thinking about eliminating an anti-poverty center headed up by an outspoken critic of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and other Republican lawmakers he accuses of doing too little to help the poor.
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors plans to vote Friday on whether to close the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill law school. It's headed by professor Gene Nichol, who was the law school's dean when he helped created the center as a platform for John Edwards ahead of the former Democratic vice presidential candidate's 2008 campaign.
The poverty center and two others slated for closing get no direct money from state taxpayers, but university ties provide other benefits.
