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Mark Robinson blasts public spending as his family nonprofit rakes in taxpayer funds

Over the past decade, Robinson's household has relied on income from Balanced Nutrition Inc., a nonprofit founded by his wife, Yolanda Hill, that administered a free lunch program for North Carolina children. The organization, funded entirely by taxpayers, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding since 2017, while paying out at least $830,000 in salaries to Hill, Robinson and other members of their family, tax filings and state documents show.

Mark Robinson stands on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in February 2024. (ZACH ROBERTS/NURPHOTO/AP)
Health insurance costs are set to rise in 2026 for many North Carolinians, after Congress decided not to vote on extending Affordable Care Act insurance tax credits, which were cut in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and expire at the end of the year.

Nearly 1 million in NC to see health premiums skyrocket in 2026

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Health insurance costs are set to rise in 2026 for many North Carolinians, after Congress decided not to vote on extending Affordable Care Act insurance tax credits, which were cut in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and expire at the end of the year.
In 2022, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services officials said Madison and three other mountain counties needed 67 more acute care hospital beds.

A North Carolina hospital was slated to open in 2025. Mired in bureaucracy, it’s still a dirt field.

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Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.
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Video: Gen Z leader in NC says her peers are exhausted, but not checked out

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Cardinal & Pine talks with Hannah Preston of Influence NC about Gen Z and politics. 
With federal immigration operations increasing in North Carolina this year, limited information has been shared about Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees who are pregnant and a nonprofit group helping women in crisis is working to change it.

Concerns raised about treatment of pregnant women in ICE detention

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With federal immigration operations increasing in North Carolina this year, limited information has been shared about Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees who are pregnant and a nonprofit group helping women in crisis is working to change it.
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.

Medicaid funding shortfall shutters statewide program helping moms and babies

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The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.