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UK's Ziliak is Featured on 'PBS NewsHour Weekend'

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 21, 2014) — James P. Ziliak, Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics in the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics and director of UK's Center for Poverty Research, appeared on national television over the weekend on "PBS NewsHour Weekend."

Ziliak was interviewed by producer/reporter Megan Thompson as part of a story about the new federal Promise Zone initiative in Kentucky. The Promise Zone initiative is aimed at fighting poverty by concentrating aid in specific regions of the U.S. The Promise Zone in Kentucky includes parts of eight counties in the southeast part of the state.

The work of Ziliak and other colleagues at UK has been featured in a number of national news publications and broadcast outlets in recent years, including the New York Times and National Public Radio (NPR).

"PBS Newshour Weekend" airs in Kentucky on KET2.

 

MEDIA CONTACT: Carl Nathe, 859-257-3200; carl.nathe@uky.edu.