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NC Budget & Tax Center is proud to be Family Forward NC certified
Employers across North Carolina want to attract and retain the best employees, and they want those employees to be happy and healthy. At the Budget & Tax Center, we advocate for public policies that support safe working conditions, living wages, and protections for workers so everyone can balance life and work. I have experienced firsthand and…
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…
Welcome our 2024 Better NC Fellowship Cohort!
The North Carolina Budget & Tax Center is excited to announce the 2024 cohort of the Better NC Fellowship! This year, we welcomed our largest cohort of Better NC Fellows, with ten North Carolina leaders from eight counties across North Carolina. In collaboration with the NC Black Alliance, the NC Budget & Tax Center hosts…
Reflections on a summer internship at BTC
This summer, BTC was lucky to have two great interns, Sebastian Rios and Nicole Stafford. Sebastian will graduate at the end of the summer from N.C. State University with a bachelor’s degree in Criminology and Nonprofit Studies, and Nicole is headed into her second and final year in Duke University’s Master of Public Policy Program….
Celebrating one year — and 30 — with the NC Budget & Tax Center
On Thursday, May 4, former and current staff members, advocates, partners, and supporters of all kinds from around the state gathered in Raleigh to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the NC Budget & Tax Center (BTC).
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.
A new year, and our one-year anniversary
As we celebrate our one-year anniversary as an independent organization throughout 2023, we are also reflecting on the work that the NC Budget & Tax Center has done in different incarnations over the past 30 years in North Carolina to document fiscal and economic conditions and connect the policy process with realities people face across our state.
The future is being built today: Little moments from 2022 that give us heart
Economic and policy transformations are rooted in small moments, often nearly imperceptible in the moment, but clearly momentous with the benefit of time. We saw a lot of moments with that kind of potential this year.