By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
As the Senate continues its secret deliberations on a health care plan that will effect all Americans, the potential impact on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society […]
By Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
· by Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director
We were already living in a time of profound consequence. President Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement means that while the needs of our endangered climate are increasing, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Plenty of analysis is already happening around the 2018 budget proposal out of the White House. The Washington Post provides two helpful graphics here and here. More is being written […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director [For more information on bills, including committee referrals and re-referrals, texts of bills, procedural histories, and recorded votes, go to the General Assembly website […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director [The deadlines for the introduction of most new bills have now passed, and we are in Crossover Week. By the end of the week, […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
The public is opposed to efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act, but some members of the U.S. House of Representatives seem determined to forge ahead anyway. The latest version […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director [For the latest committee referrals and re-referrals, go to the General Assembly website www.ncleg.net. There you can also find the texts of bills, procedural […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Newly Introduced Bills BUDGET AND TAXES H 540, Teachers & State Employees Pay Raise, would give annual raises of $2,400 to teachers and other […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Bills are being introduced at a rapid pace as the Senate’s deadline for new bills has passed and the House’s deadline on non-money approaches. […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Every state legislator should be required to listen to the stories shared at a press conference organized this week by North Carolina advocates for health care. Anyone opposed to Medicaid […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Newly Introduced Bills CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE H 233, Ban the Box, would govern how state and local governments could use criminal histories in […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Around the release of the alt-health plan currently making its way through Congress, several elected leaders have gone where elected leaders sometimes go – blaming the poor for being poor. […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Despite evidence that the Affordable Care Act is more popular and more needed than ever, some Republicans in Congress have proceeded with partisan plans to repeal Obamacare while dismantling Medicaid […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By George Reed, Retired Executive Director Newly Introduced Bills ENVIRONMENTAL CARE H 171, Change Exclusion for Solar Energy Systems. Current law provides an 80% exclusion from property taxation for the […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Our friend Rob Schofield over at Policy Watch wrote a column on Tuesday that was as vitally important in its truth-telling as it was hard to read for the future […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
At another time in my life, I would not have spent most of Saturday occupying my tiny square of personal space in the heart of Washington DC, literally shoulder to […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Groups at the state and national level continue to mobilize around concerns about President-Elect Donald Trump’s stated policy objectives and choices for cabinet posts. The NC NAACP, Interfaith Power & […]
By Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
· by Rev. Jessica Stokes, Associate Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness, Mental Health Advocacy
Community leaders continue to work endlessly to save the Pungo Hospital in Belhaven. Please join clergy and those concerned for justice this Wednesday, December 21, 10 a.m., at the Wake […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
By Nina Voli, Duke Divinity School Intern Although the Affordable Care Act expanded health care coverage to millions of Americans, the Supreme Court ruled that state enrollment in Medicaid expansion was optional. […]
By Liz Millar, Medicaid Expansion Project Coordinator
· by Liz Millar, Medicaid Expansion Project Coordinator
As the General Assembly’s biennial short session continues, Medicaid expansion continues to be a hot issue for North Carolina. On May 25, concerned citizens gathered outside the General Assembly for Medicaid […]
By George Reed, Former Executive Director
· by George Reed, Former Executive Director
The North Carolina Council of Churches celebrates today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. For decades, the Council has supported universal health care, and while the current version […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
Call it an exercise in futility? Well, no. There may not be a chance in the world that the General Assembly’s Republican chiefs will let the latest proposal to expand […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Apparently I scare Civitas. Maybe it’s my upbringing. I was raised by a single mom (my parents divorced when I was a toddler) who was fortunate to have a solid […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Health Care for All NC is continuing the important work for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina. The group is hoping concerned residents will add their names to a petition calling on […]
By Joy Williams, Former PHW Regional Coordinator
· by Joy Williams, Former PHW Regional Coordinator
Recently, I received a notice from a local community garden organizer about a grant opportunity sponsored by a fertilizer company. I shared it with my e-mail group and found one […]
By Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
· by Steve Ford, Former Volunteer Program Associate
The political stakes and motives are plain to see. President Obama and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are locked in a desperate struggle with the Republicans who control the […]
By Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate
· by Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate
Congress is overwhelmed with lobbyists for corporations, Chambers of Commerce, AARP, the Department of Defense, etc. But those living in poverty are short on lobbyist as the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ […]
By Daryn Lane, Former Student Action with Farmworkers Intern
· by Daryn Lane, Former Student Action with Farmworkers Intern
Every day, about 243 agricultural workers suffer injuries that cost them work time; about five percent of these injuries result in permanent impairment. Agriculture consistently ranks among the three most […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
One of my friends just posted this amazing YouTube video of Severn Suzuki who, at age 12, addressed the United Nations at the first Earth Summit in Rio twenty years […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
In light of yesterday’s vote to add a discriminatory amendment about marriage to our state’s constitution, it is important to consider what was accomplished through this campaign and what it […]
By Willona Stallings, Former Program Coordinator – Partners in Health & Wholeness
· by Willona Stallings, Former Program Coordinator – Partners in Health & Wholeness
The 2012 County Health Rankings report, recently released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, points to major disparities in health by geographic […]
By Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
· by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director
Everyone eats. How and from where we get that food, how much is available to us, how it is grown, and what happens when there isn’t enough all have implications […]
By Rose Gurkin, Former Program Associate for Administration
· by Rose Gurkin, Former Program Associate for Administration
State Deadline Passes and Most New Bills Introduced
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