In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren published a paper examining the impacts of neighborhoods on intergenerational mobility. They found that Forsyth County was the hardest place to escape childhood poverty in the country, with the exception of a few Native American reservations.

While North Carolina’s public universities have released information about the spread of COVID-19 on their campuses since the start of the fall semester, only a few of the state’s 58 community colleges have shared similar details so far.