PERCS, Elon’s Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies, is launching a multi-year, collaborative ethnographic research project to bring community members, students and faculty together to address the issue of how narratives shape our understanding of public assistance programs and the people who are the recipients of government economic aid.
As a collaborative project, PERCS will be working with specific agencies and community groups to identify the needs and interests of these groups as they relate to the perceptions and realities of public assistance.
Stay tuned as the project develops.