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When adjusted for inflation, educators in North Carolina are making 12% less than they were in 1999. Their classroom budgets have been cut in half over the last 10 years. They continue to be asked to move mountains without being given the resources to do it. Educators around the country are demanding that conditions be…
Read MoreWhen adjusted for inflation teachers in North Carolina are making 12% less than they were in 1999. Per pupil spending in the last ten years has been cut in half. The expectations for teacher’s performance continues to get higher yet they are given fewer and fewer resources. It’s time that our teachers be paid a decent…
Read MoreWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently signed a bill prohibiting the state’s health insurance program from covering abortion care for state and local public workers. This is just another attempt by conservatives to take away health insurance from those who need it. All people deserve access to affordable abortion care. In North Carolina, abortion is covered…
Read MoreYears of slashing budgets of watchdog agencies and cutting regulations on polluting companies have directly led to the poisoning of our water. With more and more contaminants being found in the water in and around the Cape Fear River it’s time lawmakers did something to stop it. It’s time for politicians in Raleigh to put…
Read MoreYears of slashing budgets of watchdog agencies and cutting regulations on polluting companies have directly led to the poisoning of our water. With more and more contaminants being found in the water in and around the Cape Fear River it’s time lawmakers did something to stop it. It’s time for politicians in Raleigh to put…
Read MoreTeachers and students around the country are exercising their rights to demand action from lawmakers. Teachers are demanding better pay and students are demanding a safer world. Together they have the potential to change education in our country to be safer and more effective. It’s time politicians listen and represent the best interest of the people.…
Read MoreThe Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations led to big cuts in public school funding in North Carolina. When adjusted for inflation teachers in our state are making 12% less than they were in 1999-2000. Now teacher shortages are a problem around the state as teachers move away for higher pay or…
Read MoreThe tax cuts touted by Republicans as the economic boost North Carolina needs has been anything but helpful to struggling families in North Carolina. While things are booming in the Triangle and Charlotte it does nothing for impoverished rural residents. With cuts to social services and public jobs, residents in cities like Goldsboro are left…
Read MoreThe House of Representatives in Kentucky passed a bill forbidding abortion after 11 weeks. This will likely be met with legal challenges if it’s signed into law. Across the United States, many states are looking to restrict abortion access and reproductive rights. Ohio lawmakers introduced a total abortion ban, Mississippi now has a law that bans…
Read MoreFor a functional democracy, we must have an independent judiciary. Lawmakers in Raleigh have had their unconstitutional laws struck down by courts over and over again. Their solution to this problem is not to stop passing unfair and unconstitutional laws. Their solution is to take over the court and rig the system so they can pass…
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