Most of the headlines about HIV/AIDS in recent years are about efforts to control the disease in Africa, but the deadly epidemic is still raging in the United States, particularly in African-American communities in the rural South, including many parts of North Carolina. [Continue Reading...]
We know it’s summer time, but some issues just won’t wait… Please come to a special NC Policy Watch Crucial Conversation lunch: Duke’s controversial "Save-A-Watt"program Find out why a diverse group of social justice, consumer rights and environmental groups are telling the North Carolina Utilities Commission that it's a bad deal for the more than [Continue Reading...]
The folks in Alamance County must be feeling awfully safe these days. A popular local librarian was arrested at work by sheriff’s deputies and three children, one just six years old, were left to fend for themselves in a car on the side of an interstate highway at 2:00 in the morning after their mother was dragged away in handcuffs. [Continue Reading...]
North Carolina lost a net of 79,800 jobs to China from 2001 to 2007. In absolute terms, North Carolina lost more jobs, on net, than all but seven states. Every non-farm economic sector shed jobs with the greatest drops occurring in manufacturing and professional/ scientific/ technical services. [Continue Reading...]
