Scott Morgan
Reporter, ProducerScott Morgan is the Upstate multimedia reporter for South Carolina Public Radio, based in Rock Hill. He cut his teeth as a newspaper reporter and editor in New Jersey before finding a home in public radio in Texas. Scott joined South Carolina Public Radio in March of 2019. His work has appeared in numerous national and regional publications as well as on NPR and MSNBC. He's won numerous state, regional, and national awards for his work including a national Edward R. Murrow.
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South Carolina is one of 10 holdouts against Medicaid expansion. Attitudes towards expansion, however, might be changing.
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Families in Richland One School District live in a community beset by poverty, eviction, and homelessness. A grassroots effort to help parents deal runs through May.
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The bill to redefine the climate in which short-term lenders operate in the state made it further than any bill of the kind since the Great Recession, but still not far enough.
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The former president has a large cushion over former Gov. Nikki Haley heading into the GOP primary. But independents likely to vote on Feb. 24 are 50/50.
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South Carolina's foreclosure filing rates ballooned between January and the previous January. The trend was bolstered by the two highest foreclosure rates among U.S. cities of 200,000-plus.
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The bill seeks to limit how certain short-term lenders can solicit new and maintain existing borrowers.
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State Senate Bill 910 zeroes in on how installment lenders get and maintain their customers. Former lenders say its a lot of pressure.
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New data show that fewer homes in the state are considered 'equity rich' than this time last year.
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More women than men are registered to vote heading into South Carolina's presidential primaries. There are large gaps between the sexes among white and Black voters.
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Overall, it was slightly more expensive to buy a home in 2023 than it was in 2022. But renting right now is slightly cheaper than it's been for a while.