Logan Rockefeller Harris
Posts by Logan Rockefeller Harris
Fact Sheet: Harmful Republican Megabill Fails North Carolina Families, Children, and Communities
The Republicans’ harmful megabill, enacted through budget reconciliation on July 4, will raise costs for North Carolina families and take health coverage, food assistance, and other essentials away from North Carolinians who are already struggling to make ends meet – all while showering ever larger tax breaks on the wealthiest households. While parts of the…
Slide deck: Information about the Big, Beautiful Bill (federal reconciliation bill, or HR1)
Note: Content updated on August 12, 2025 The federal reconciliation bill, or HR1 (also referred to as the “Big Beautiful Bill”) will take health care and food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, all to pay for tax cuts for the rich. BTC has been presenting information about the bill to our…
Congress’s anti-immigrant budget threatens health care, food assistance for NC families
Note: The US House passed a budget bill in May 2025, and the US Senate is releasing their budget proposal currently, with a vote expected in June. The two budget proposals are extremely similar: both make massive cuts to health care and food assistance to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. This post includes the…
Which NC budget proposal delivers for families struggling with the cost of living, and which delivers for the top 1 percent?
Note: This blog post is one of a two-part publication providing information about the numerous tax policies in the 2025-27 NC State Budget process. If you wish to read in more detail about the impacts of tax policies contained in the Governor, House, and Senate budget proposals, read Part 2 here. ****** As we make…
House Bill 420: Sound Basic Education for Every Child
Download a PDF of this Brief Funds our public schools so every child in NC can learn HB 420 Summary: The bill provides funding for K-12 public education and early education aligned with years six and seven of the Leandro Plan, so North Carolina can meet its constitutional requirement to provide a sound basic education…
2025 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…
2025 Living Income Standard: The cost of meeting the basics across North Carolina
In every county in North Carolina, people want to meet basic needs for themselves and their children without stress. To build an economy that works for everyone and not just the wealthy few, we need to understand what it actually takes to meet those needs. Approximately every two years, we calculate a Living Income Standard…
2025 Living Income Standard Methodology
View the 2025 Living Income Standard dashboard The 2025 Living Income Standard (LIS) captures how much income working people and families need to afford basic expenses. BTC develops an LIS for every county in North Carolina approximately every two years. We use actual cost data to estimate how much money families need to pay for…
2025 Living Income Standard
To open the dashboard full-size in another browser window, click here. To download a spreadsheet of the 2025 Living Income Standard data, click here. To read the methodology, click here. Some folks are having issues with downloading PDFs from this dashboard. If you are having those issues, try opening this link and downloading the PDF…
For a lasting victory on child-care funding in NC, we need equitable tax policy
When legislators left Raleigh without passing a budget at the end of June, early childhood educators and child-care advocates were one of the few groups with something meaningful to celebrate. In response to tireless activism across the state, from the western-most counties to civil disobedience in the NC Legislative Building, the NCGA passed a last-minute…