Mel Umbarger
Posts by Mel Umbarger
A refundable Child Tax Credit would help NC children thrive
Download a PDF of the Fact Sheet here No matter where we come from or what we look like, we all want to provide for our children and give them every opportunity to thrive. In 14 states across the country, legislatures have adopted child tax credits that reduce child poverty, improve wellbeing, and make state…
North Carolina should keep the income tax on corporate profits
Download a PDF of the Fact Sheet No matter what we look like or where we live, North Carolinians want to care for our families and leave things better for those to come. But as our work has made the state prosper, a handful of politicians have rigged the rules to redirect resources from our…
Our website has gotten an upgrade!
If you’ve been on our website since March 1, you may have noticed it looks a lot different. That’s when we launched our new, revamped website, which we’ve been working on for more than a year now, and we’re very excited to finally be able to share it with the world! So, what’s new? We’ve…
2024 NC County Economic Snapshots released by NC Budget & Tax Center
RALEIGH (March 7, 2024)-Today, the NC Budget & Tax Center (BTC) published our Economic County Snapshots for 2024. Released each year, these snapshots provide at-a-glance information on a variety of economic and social indicators for every county in North Carolina, along with comparisons to state-level data. Data is available is multiple formats for ease of…
2024 Economic County Snapshots for North Carolina
The Economic County Snapshots are one of BTC’s flagship annual publications. They provide key economic and social indicators from publicly available sources for all 100 counties in North Carolina, along with a comparison to state-level data, with measures for employment, poverty and income, affordable housing, health, education, and more. The Snapshots are available for each…
Demand that the NC General Assembly choose our communities over corporations
It is time lawmakers put the people of North Carolina first and ensure that corporations pay what they owe in taxes by pausing the corporate income tax elimination and keeping the rate corporations pay at 2.5 percent.
Open Letter from 21 Groups on the Final Budget & Call for Prioritizing People Over Politics and Powerful Interests
To: Leaders of the NC General Assembly Members of the Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations/Base Budget Members of the House Standing Committee on Appropriations CC: Members, North Carolina Senate Members, North Carolina House of Representatives October 4, 2023 Dear NC Legislators: We, the undersigned, have come…
Statement from the NC Budget & Tax Center on passage of NC budget
Statement from Alexandra Sirota, Executive Director of the NC Budget & Tax Center Legislative leaders have prioritized the interests of the wealthy few and out-of-state corporations over the people of North Carolina in their final budget. We shouldn’t be surprised by the callous and flawed outcome that results from a process that is blocked from…
Statement on budget developments, Sept. 19, 2023
Statement from Alexandra Sirota, Executive Director of the NC Budget & Tax Center Once again, state leaders are gambling with people’s lives and our state’s future. They are breaking their promise to provide health care to hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians as part of the state budget – now tying Medicaid expansion to casino…