This week, the North Carolina House of Representatives Finance committee recommended two COVID-19-related bills (H.B. 1034 and H.B. 1039) which focus on small-business loans. Other benefits of the bills include easing unemployment-claim requirements and waiving tax-filing deadlines.
Read MoreWhen the North Carolina General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a $3 billion transportation package in the summer of 2018 to fund road construction and repairs, few would have imagined that it would take over two years for the bonds to actually be issued. But the legislation, the Build NC Bond Act of 2018 (Senate Bill 758), required that before the bonds
Overwhelming majorities of likely voters in North Carolina support the concept of school choice, according to recent polls commissioned by the Carolina Leadership Coalition. That support extends across nearly all racial, political, ideological, and socio-economic ranges and among demographic groups. School choice allows parents to use a portion of the expenditure associated with their child’s K-12 education to enroll in
North Carolina’s median household income increased by nearly $3,500 to $57,341 in 2019, according to data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 6.5% growth is the state’s largest single year-over-year increase on record. “Household” income includes the income of the householder and the income of anyone at least 15 years of age living in the household, whether they
Demographics and Voting Behaviors 940 likely voters (57.2% of whom were female) from nine eastern counties in the Coastal Region of North Carolina (Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Lenoir, Martin, Perquimons, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties) were surveyed from July 8 to July 12, 2020. 56.1% were white, 37.9% were black, and 1.8% were Hispanic or Latino. The age ranges in this
