RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An up-close examination of poverty across North Carolina this year revealed the faces behind the statistics of homelessness and unemployment, as well as the people who will help find the solutions, organizers of the anti-poverty tour said Wednesday.

“We have been profoundly changed by what we’ve seen,” said the Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at a news conference to discuss the Truth and Hope Poverty Tour.