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Justice Circle Building Thriving Communities in North Carolina: A Primer on the State Budget
Our state budget represents our values in practice. This handbook will explain how the budget sets priorities for our communities and impacts our quality of life.
Publication Type: BTC Policy Basic
Measuring a “Living Wage”
June 26, 2014 North Carolina and national living wage models can help in establishing a way to measure what constitutes a living wage—what …
North Carolina’s Budget Calendar
June 2015 In odd-numbered years, North Carolina enacts a two-year budget. The budget passed in the summer of 2015, for example, runs the …
The Reality of Tax Cuts
July 2015 Proponents of tax cuts continue to push a mantra of low-income taxes being a major driver of state economic growth. Research …
SNAP Policy – The Return of the Harsh Three-Month Time Limit for Childless, Non-Disabled Adults
November 2015 More than 100,000 of the state’s poorest adults could be cut off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2016 due …
Marginal versus Effective Personal Income Tax Rates
This policy basic clarifies the difference between marginal and effective tax rates, and gives a North Carolina-specific example of how these rates work in action.
A Culture of Health for Everyone
The opportunities and systems that support the health of North Carolinians have not been distributed equitably. Discriminatory systems and policies—such as unequal distribution of wealth, housing segregation, jobs that don’t pay wages that allow families to afford the basics, and the placement of harmful chemical plants in communities of color or in areas with concentrated poverty—have made strong, long term health largely out of reach for far too many North Carolinians.