Everybody in North Carolina deserves to earn enough to make ends meet, and nobody who works full time should live in poverty. Yet the current minimum wage of $7.25 traps thousands of working people in poverty—and the burden is especially born by working women, many of whom earn less hour for hour than men doing the same work.
North Carolina Medicaid has contracted with private health plans to manage care for most people with Medicaid and NC Health Choice (CHIP) coverage. There are important things you need to know.
Keeping people uninsured not only makes our communities less healthy, it is also costly for North Carolina taxpayers. Medicaid expansion is a key …
Senate Bill 551 will punish parents struggling to keep up with child support payments by taking away their food assistance. The Supplemental Nutrition …
North Carolina has a growing elderly population. As in the rest of the United States, hundreds more Baby Boomers in our state are …
In June 2018, Arkansas began requiring Medicaid expansion enrollees ages 30-49 to report each month about whether or not they engaged in 80 hours of work, or other qualifying activities, in order to receive Medicaid coverage. If enrollees don’t report, or if they report insufficient hours for any three months out of the year, they lose their Medicaid coverage and are locked out from reapplying until the next calendar year.
It’s time for North Carolina to drive our federal dollars into our North Carolina communities. Currently North Carolina receives 67 percent of the …
Despite state legislation in 2017 and earlier limiting local government authority, municipal and county governments can still take positive action to promote and enforce quality job standards in certain settings. This fact sheet outlines what can and cannot be done by local governments to support living wages, paid sick days, and other quality jobs within their jurisdictions.
Under Senate Bill 86, Association Health Plans (AHPs) can avoid rules governing small group and individual market coverage, enabling them to siphon off lower-risk enrollees from the regular small group and individual markets. But any reduction in premiums that SB 86 may offer to some small businesses and individuals come only at the expense of others who would have to pay higher costs.
Every North Carolinian should have the health care they need without fear of going bankrupt. Yet more than 1 million North Carolinians in …
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