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Scientists call for using more accurate metrics to gauge extreme heat after farmworker’s death in Nash County
| March 19, 2024
State investigators accused a Nash County farm of a "willful serious" violation of NC labor law, following a 29-year-old migrant worker's death in September 2023.
Rural NC communities get grant funding to address healthcare, infrastructure issues
| February 26, 2024
The North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority (RIA) this month gave the greenlight to fund eight projects in communities across North Carolina, providing $1.5 million dollars to support a variety of projects and help create 270 jobs. “These funds make strategic investments in our rural communities to help them seize opportunities to prosper,” Governor Roy Cooper […]
Democrats increase their focus on NC’s once neglected rural areas
| February 8, 2024
A national organization is providing grants to 17 rural counties to help Democrats pay for voter outreach that could help tip local and national races in this closest of swing states.
A new child tax credit could pass this month. Here’s what it would do for low-income families.
| January 17, 2024
During the pandemic, Democrats changed the child tax credit and cut childhood poverty in half. Now there's new hope for making those changes permanent, but there are skeptics.
Rural hospitals, nursing schools, and mental health support: How NC will spend its $1.7 billion Medicaid bonus
| January 11, 2024
North Carolina expanded Medicaid last year in part because President Biden’s 2021 American Rescue Plan offered a financial incentive that will have equally huge effects on rural healthcare services.
Beyond the grade: How one ‘failing’ NC school defines success
| January 2, 2024
NC's controversial school report card system has given Lingerfeldt Elementary in Gastonia, NC, failing grades. But the local school's leadership isn't buying it.