Logan Rockefeller Harris
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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…
NC Children and Youth Fiscal Map
Open this in fullscreen mode by clicking the arrows in the bottom right corner. For more information about national trends around how much states spend on programs and services for children and youth, please check out Children’s Funding Project’s full analysis.
Who pays taxes in North Carolina?
As North Carolinians, we pay taxes to build communities that ensure everyone — Black, brown, and white — can thrive in every corner of our state. But policymakers in North Carolina have created a tax code that asks more of people with the lowest incomes. The latest edition of Who Pays?, released today by the…
NC leaders’ tax cuts for wealthy mean we will lose more than $13 billion for NC needs
Combined with the personal and corporate income tax cuts that had already been scheduled, new cuts in the recent North Carolina budget are estimated to lead to a loss of over $13.5 billion in revenue per year when fully implemented. (This is a low estimate; the higher estimate is $15.2 billion.)
As school begins, let’s give North Carolina students a fully funded future
Teachers require students to turn in their homework on time, but NC General Assembly leaders are still negotiating the state budget behind closed doors nearly two months past its due date.
What If? Considering a dedicated revenue source for the NC Housing Trust Fund
In every county and every neighborhood in North Carolina, people need safe homes for themselves and their families where they can afford to pay their rent or mortgage without cutting back on other needs like healthy food or doctor’s visits. State funding for affordable housing can help make this a reality, and the NC Housing…
With sweeping abortion restrictions, NC Senate Bill 20 will harm poor people and families, limit economic opportunity
Our communities thrive when we all have the right to choose if and when we want to have children, and have everything we need for our families to be safe and healthy. We can’t have true economic security without reproductive justice, including accessible and affordable abortion care. Senate Bill 20, which was vetoed by Gov….
NC can choose good property tax policies that support affordable housing
Property taxes are one of the ways that we come together to fund local services that we all rely on: things like school buildings for our children, health and fire departments, and parks. Homeowners and renters all contribute to property taxes; homeowners pay taxes directly while renters pay them indirectly through rent payments.
But our current property tax system in North Carolina can lead to housing displacement and perpetuate inequities, especially when a shortage of affordable housing is driving rapid increases in housing prices. Fortunately, North Carolina can adopt good policies to make the system fairer and support housing affordability without jeopardizing our public services. While we advocate for effective policies, we also need to watch out for some politicians and anti-government extremists who try to use property taxes as a wedge to push damaging property tax caps as part of an agenda to make government less effective.
Refundable family tax credits would make NC’s tax system fairer
Across North Carolina, no matter where we live or what we look like, we want our families to be safe and healthy with a roof over our heads and food on the table. State tax credits for people and families with low and moderate incomes are a proven way to boost economic stability and advance…
Our union and management ratified a new Collective Bargaining Agreement!
This January, BTC reached an important milestone for our organization: We ratified the first Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiated between our staff union and BTC’s management. As we shared on our blog last year, having a unionized workplace is one of the ways that BTC puts our values into action inside our organization.
