Study finds state has higher rates of deep poverty and child poverty than majority of U.S. Poverty in North Carolina either climbed or ...
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Governor McCrory’s budget is anticipated as early as this week. The choices made in this budget will either allow the state to help ...
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Last Friday, January 30 marked a little known national “holiday”: Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day. The IRS-led national event was intended ...
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New report documents the urgent need for fair pay and paid leave for those who care for our aging population Direct care workers ...
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Report explains folly of new proposal under consideration in the General Assembly A proposed change in the way North Carolina taxes multistate corporations ...
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As we reflect on the 50 years that have passed since President Lyndon Johnson launched America’s “War on Poverty,” it is also important ...
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