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RURAL ECONOMY
Biden visits Raleigh, announces $82 million for high-speed internet in NC
| January 19, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday visited Raleigh to announce an $82 million dollar investment in high-speed internet, which will help expand the critical technology to an additional 16,000 households in North Carolina through funding provided by the American Rescue Plan. This latest investment in high speed internet brings the administration’s total funding for high speed […]
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.
NC farmers can’t repair their own equipment. It affects us all.
| December 22, 2023
Imagine purchasing equipment that is critical to the success of your business that costs you tens, if not over a hundred thousand dollars, but you’re not allowed to make repairs on the equipment yourself. That is the reality that farmers in North Carolina and across the country face. Patrick Brown, a fourth-generation farmer in Warren […]
How $37 billion in federal funding is being used to improve at-home caregiving in NC
| December 21, 2023
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North Carolina used American Rescue Plan dollars to fund wage increases for at-home caregivers and launch a fund to recruit and retain workers.