Logan Rockefeller Harris
Posts by Logan Rockefeller Harris
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…
Corporate tax cuts worsen racial inequality in North Carolina and US
Most of us across North Carolina — Black, brown, and white — want to contribute to our communities and leave things better for the next generation. But as our work has made the state prosper, a handful of politicians have rigged the rules to redirect resources from our communities to the richest few and to…
In wake of NC leaders missing another budget deadline, we demand tax policy, budget that puts people first
After a chaotic few weeks of abruptly released budget proposals and hurried votes, state lawmakers from the NC House and NC Senate left town at the end of the fiscal year in June without agreeing on a budget adjustment bill for the second year of the state’s two-year budget. (The NC General Assembly makes changes…
NC Senate leaders refuse to debate colleagues’ amendments that would improve budget proposal
The Senate budget proposal for the coming fiscal year was approved on Monday night in a party-line vote. The prospects of it becoming law before the end of the fiscal year on June 30 remain dim, and there are no plans that the Senate and House will negotiate a final spending plan before they leave…
Following closed-door process, House budget prioritizes wealthy and corporate interests above the needs of NC communities
[Note: Here are links where you can access the budget bill and the committee report. You can also see how members of the NC House of Representatives voted for this budget.] Yesterday, the NC House passed its proposed budget for FY 2024-2025. Continuing the legislature’s secretive budget practices of recent years, House leaders released the budget on Monday evening and…
2023-2025 NC Budget Report: Locking in more tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of everyday North Carolinians
[Note: Here are links where you can access the budget bill and the conference report. You can also see how members of the NC Senate and NC House of Representatives voted for this conference budget.] Download a PDF of this report Budget and tax decisions are how we come together as North Carolinians – Black, brown, and white, in every county across…
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.