He has served as a senior policy adviser to North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue and is the author ofBoosting Paychecks: The Politics of Supporting America's Working Poor. Daniel P. Gitterman is an associate professor of public policy and a senior fellow at the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as a senior policy adviser to North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue and is the author of ###Boosting Paychecks: The Politics of Supporting Americas Working Poor#. Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is director of the Global Research Institute.