Just released: Our 2023 legislative agenda

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A Celebration to Honor Rick Glazier

A Celebration to Honor Rick Glazier

Important information for Medicaid recipients

What to do if your benefits have been reduced or terminated
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Love Thy Neighbor: Expand Medicaid!

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2023 North Carolina Legislative Session: An Opportunity to Unlock Economic Potential and Build Resilience

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State of Working North Carolina: Looking Back on the Pandemic

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Still Stymied: Why Integration Has Not Transformed North Carolina Schools

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

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NC Drug Tax

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

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Know Your Rights as a Worker in North Carolina

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Senate Bill 49 unfairly targets LGBTQ community, and harms students, educators, and healthcare workers

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North Carolina Justice Center’s statement on protecting the right to abortion

North Carolina Justice Center releases 2023 legislative agenda

Fair Chance Criminal Justice Project

N.C. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in civil rights groups’ historic lawsuit to permanently restore voting rights to over 56,000 people and end felony disenfranchisement in North Carolina

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