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Justice Circle Privatizing Pre-K – A move the would disproportionately impact rural, high-poverty counties
March 2012 KEY FINDINGS: Public schools play a major role in North Carolina’s Pre‐K program. In 17 counties, 100 percent of the Pre‐K …
Publication Type: BTC Brief
Supporting Essential Workers – Health, Education and Public-Safety Occupations Benefit from Earned Income Tax Credit
March 2012 KEY FINDINGS: More than 880,000 working North Carolinians received the state Earned Income Tax Credit in 2010, the latest year for …
Underpreparing for the Future – North Carolina’s Divestment in Post-Secondary Education
KEY FINDINGS: Post-secondary institutions in North Carolina sustained a $917.2 million state budget cut in the 2011-13 state budget passed in the spring …
JUST THE FACTS: Real Solutions Require Real Facts
The state budget – no matter how one looks at it – did not add teacher positions to North Carolina’s schools. It resulted …
Time to Step Up – With Federal Recovery Funds Gone, State Lawmakers Must Recommit to Funding Public Education with General Fund Appropriations
KEY FINDINGS: Funding for public education has always been a shared responsibility of state, federal and local governments with the majority of investment …
North Carolina’s State Earned Income Tax Credit – A Support for Working Families with Wide-Spread Benefits
May 2012 KEY FINDINGS: The state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) provides workers earning low wages with a credit to offset their total …
Staying in the Fast Lane – Gas Tax Cap Would Delay Needed Repairs and Weaken North Carolina’s Transportation Budget
May 2012 KEY FINDINGS: North Carolina’s transportation budget faces a funding gap. Since the Great Recession, North Carolina has not experienced gradual increases …
The Greater the Fall, The Tougher the Climb — North Carolina Struggles to Replace Jobs Lost to Great Recession
May 2012 KEY FINDINGS: During the Great Recession, North Carolina’s employment rate fell faster and farther than in any recession in the last …
Economic Mobility & The American Dream – How is the Deck Stacked in North Carolina?
June 2012 KEY FINDINGS: Factors beyond effort and skill impact one’s ability to achieve the American Dream of getting ahead, including geography, socioeconomic …
Scholarship Funding Corporate Tax Credit: Reducing Available Funds for Educating All North Carolina’s Children
KEY FINDINGS: House Bill 1104, Scholarship Funding Corporate Tax Credit, would create a dollar‐for‐dollar tax credit for corporations that make donations to organizations …