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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…
The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s at Risk in North Carolina
Immigration Research Initiative and NC Budget & Tax Center The authors would like to thank Emily Eisner, Andrew Perry, and Nathan Gusdorf of the Fiscal Policy Institute, who with David Dyssegaard Kallick co-authored a similar report in New York State that was jointly published by the Fiscal Policy Institute and Immigration Research Initiative. Key Findings…
Statement on HB10 veto override from Executive Director Alexandra Sirota
Republicans in the majority of the NC General Assembly joined by three Democrats — Representatives Cunningham, Willingham, and Wray — voted to use our public money for the expansion of unaccountable private school vouchers for the wealthiest families in our state. Private school vouchers are unpopular in North Carolina, and when voters have the chance…
New data show the folly in policymakers anti-immigrant approach
Most North Carolinians want to live in a state where the economy delivers good jobs and good wages and where every person — regardless of race or birthplace — has a chance to thrive. New research released this month from the Immigration Research Initiative provides more evidence of the critical contributions of immigrants to North…
Statement on HB10 and NC’s broken budget process from Alexandra Sirota, Executive Director of the NC Budget & Tax Center
NC’s legislative leaders are once again bypassing transparent budgeting processes by slipping key budget items, such as private school vouchers for wealthy families, into unrelated bills that have already passed through both the NC House and Senate. But while the harmful anti-immigrant HB10 includes critical spending adjustments, it’s not a budget bill — it’s a…
National Study: Undocumented Immigrants Contribute $692,200,000 in North Carolina Taxes a Year
Immigration policies have taken center stage in public debates this year, but much of the conversation has been driven by emotion, not data. A new in-depth national study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy aims to help change that by quantifying how much undocumented immigrants pay in taxes – both nationally and in…
Anti-immigrant policies in North Carolina hurt us all
Most of us in NC believe that everyone should be able to live a life of dignity and safety. But some politicians in Raleigh are pushing to block immigrants from using identification that would support full participation in communities and seeking to punish local governments that refuse to do the work of federal immigration enforcement….
Unemployment Insurance worked, but NC workers who needed it most didn’t see the full benefit
North Carolina could have benefited even more if our state’s Unemployment Insurance policies were in line with what is needed to stabilize households and local economies during hard times. In 2013, state policymakers made changes that reduced the effectiveness of the program. Today, North Carolina’s Unemployment Insurance continues to provide too few dollars in wage replacement for too short a time for too few of the workers who have lost their jobs.