What we were up to in February 2022
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s already March! There’s been so many things happening all around us, and I hope you all are taking some time for self care when you need it.
In case you missed it, here are some highlights of what we’ve been up to for the past month at the Budget & Tax Center, as well as some upcoming stuff.
Summer Policy Institute
Applications for the Summer Policy Institute 2022 open Friday, March 18. Sign up for updates about SPI, including an alert when applications open.
Honoring History Makers
As we think of those who have gone before us, we are reminded of our own ability to become History Makers. We highlighted three people who are making history today with the work they are doing in North Carolina.
American Rescue Plan in NC
We’ve got a ton of resources up on our website about the American Rescue Plan, and we are continuing to analyze the impact of ARP on North Carolina as we approach one year since it was signed into law. Check it out at NCBudget.org/ARP .
Our blog posts and publications
What you may have missed
We’re on LinkedIn now! And make sure you are following us on Facebook or Twitter! We retweeted this on-the-nose Twitter post from the Institute for Policy Studies in February:
Where we’ve been
Here are few places you might have seen some of our staff show up this month.
- With the goal of engaging people directly impacted by poverty with the policy process as experts on what is needed to increase individual and community well-being, the People’s Hearing project held its first meeting of the year to discuss the group’s priorities to address hardship that will be brought forward in roundtable discussions with policymakers later this spring. For more information, contact Advocacy Manager Heba Atwa.
- We partnered with NC SPAN for a virtual training on local Sheriff Budgets designed to NC SPAN has three more virtual trainings in the series that you can register for here.
What we’ve been reading
Here are a few of the articles this month that we want to make sure you saw.
- Report signals benefits of pilot project giving no-strings-attached cash to low-income D.C. families.
- A roundup of links by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on poverty and inequality, including their chart of the week showing how COVID-19 relief achieved a historic drop in poverty in 2020.
- What’s the real story about profits, wages, and inflation? Is it workers or their bosses who will be able to protect their incomes from rising prices? EPI’s Josh Bivens breaks down the distributional conflict between labor and capital.
- Corporations are raking in historic profits by jacking up prices on consumers. Remember that next time you hear about inflation.
- New analysis from Southern Economic Advancement Project shows that American Rescue Plan dollars going to cities are still available to support an equitable recovery. Deploying these with community input to drive better outcomes and greater resilience is priority work across NC.
Do you have an article you think we should share? Send it to me at [email protected].
How to contact us
We’ve put the contact information for each of our team members on our website at NCBudget.org/our-team/, or you can always email us at [email protected] if you’re not sure who to talk to.
