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Justice Circle Economy That Works for All: Bring Back the State EITC
North Carolina should have an economy that works for all and ensures every family can make ends meet. Our state once had a policy in place with that exact goal — the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Economy That Works for All: Support Jobless Workers’ Connection to Work and Careers
While North Carolina’s unemployment rate has dropped in recent years, there are still fewer employed people as a share of the population as there were before the recession started and, in many communities, there are more jobless workers than there are job openings.
Economy That Works for All: Attract—and Keep—High-Quality Teachers in the Classroom with Competitive Pay
Teachers are the most important classroom factor when it comes to improving student performance. Unfortunately, North Carolina has failed to ensure that teachers receive adequate pay and support. North Carolina’s average teacher pay ranking has fallen from 22nd in FY 03-04 to 41st in FY 15-16, and enrollment in teacher preparation programs is plummeting.
Economy That Works for All: Raise the State Minimum Wage
North Carolina needs an economy that works for all and ensures broadly shared prosperity. That means creating jobs that pay workers enough to afford the basics for themselves and their families—enough to buy groceries, pay the rent, put gas in the car, and keep their children in day care.
Picking Losers: Why Majority of NC Incentive Programs End in Failure
If North Carolina continues to use incentives to pick winners and losers in economic development, the state needs to do a much better job of picking winners.
The Power of Wage Policies
Municipal and county governments still have opportunities to take positive action to raise wages for workers living in their communities, despite recent state legislation that limits local government authority. One such policy opportunity involves raising the wages of their own public employees, a strategy that can play an important role in combatting wage stagnation and income inequality by increasing the number of jobs that help boost the economy.
Miles Apart: NC homecare workers earn too little to make ends meet
Home healthcare workers are earning wages that pay far below what it takes to make ends meet in every county across North Carolina, weakening the overall economy and damaging the quality of long-term care seniors receive in their homes. The General Assembly must address this looming crisis in long-term care by reforming the state’s Medicaid program to ensure homecare workers earn adequate wages.
Smart Money: Investing in Student Achievement
North Carolina’s state support for education and other public investments, measured as a share of the state’s economy, is below its 40-year average and this jeopardizes gains in student performance and the state’s economic future. Despite a modest recovery in state revenue since the end of the recession, North Carolina has failed to regain the ground lost during that prolonged economic downturn.
Financing Education in North Carolina
Successful schools for all North Carolina students are possible only with adequate resources. When spending is increased per student, successful student and school-level outcomes increase as well, on average. States that have increased funding for low-income districts have significantly improved student achievement in those districts.
My Storybook: Understanding the North Carolina Health Insurance Coverage Gap
In North Carolina, up to 500,000 people would benefit from closing the gap and approximately 244,000 of these individuals have no other option for affordable health insurance.
These are their stories.