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After an extended period of inactivity thats left the state without a new budget for the first quarter of the new fiscal year, the state legislature kicked things into high gear last week passing a $30 billion budget and a series of lengthy, momentous, a

One of the very few silver linings to accompany the COVID-19 pandemic was a significant decline in American child poverty. Thanks to various relief initiatives and, most notably, the expansion of the federal child tax credit that the Biden administration

For several years now, North Carolinas Republican-dominated state legislature has been pursuing a determined effort to overhaul the states university system. Whether its the makeup of the boards and chancellors that oversee the system and its various c

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