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New Performance Pay Plan for Teachers: Approach with Caution and Skepticism

NCJC Report
NC Drug Tax

“Nothing to do with Grace, Nothing to do with Justice”: The Human Impact of North Carolina’s Unauthorized Substances Tax

Know Your Rights

Know Your Rights as a Worker in North Carolina

Fact Sheet

Resources for Natural Disasters

Fact Sheet

Public Charge: The Law Has Changed

Coalition Letter

Coalition Letter to Steve Lawler and Members of the N.C. Healthcare Association

Fact Sheet

Choose Medicaid Expansion or Lose Billions

NC Health Report

Using Enrollee Experiences to Improve Medicaid Plans

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Education & Law Project

Untested, unproven teacher performance pay proposal won’t solve North Carolina’s teacher retention troubles

Education & Law Project

North Carolina Justice Center statement on historic Leandro ruling

Fair Chance Criminal Justice Project

New report highlights the human impacts of the N.C. Unauthorized Substances Tax (N.C. Drug Tax)

Immigrant & Refugee Rights

MEDIA RELEASE: After more than a decade, historic language access complaint resolved with NC Administrative Office of the Courts

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