North Carolina Republican lawmakers recently introduced legislation ( HB 823, SB 406) to significantly expand the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The House approved HB 823 while similar legislation in the Senate is still under consideration.
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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School choice advocates in North Carolina had two reasons to smile this week.
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2023 @ 7:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As temperatures begin rising, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Aging and Adult Services is partnering with the N.C. Area Agencies on Aging and local service providers to distribute fans to eligible recipients through Operation Fan Heat Relief
Published: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 10:13 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina’s decade of economic success deserves celebration. Even more so, however, it is worth applauding the important steps toward reform that state lawmakers have undertaken over the past decade.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even in the bastion of duplicity, representatives in Washington D.C. must attach their names to their pork spending projects in a piece of legislation, a bare minimum for transparency’s sake.
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2022 @ 2:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Aging and Adult Services is partnering with the N.C. Area Agencies on Aging and local service providers to distribute fans to eligible recipients through Operation Fan Heat Relief May 1–Oct. 31.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 10:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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New study shows state budgets getting slammed by Medicaid costs
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Steed
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North Carolina households receiving Food and Nutrition Services benefits will continue to receive the maximum amount for their household size for the month of February, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 11:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Aging and Adult Services is partnering with the N.C. Area Agencies on Aging and local service providers to distribute fans to eligible recipients through Operation Fan Heat Relief May 1–Oct. 31.
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 @ 3:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The following information is as of 4pm
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 12:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Monday January 11th, Beaufort County is moving into Phase 1b, Group 1 of vaccinations.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 12:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina National Guard mobilized, other efforts underway to support vaccine distribution
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 @ 11:07 pm
By: Governor's Office
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How to Get Your Check
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 4:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the weather starts warming up, the North Carolina Division of Aging and Adult Services is partnering with the NC Area Agencies on Aging and local service providers to distribute fans to eligible recipients through Operation Fan Heat Relief May 1–Oct. 31.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 6:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As warmer weather arrives in North Carolina, the Division of Aging and Adult Services is partnering with the N.C. Area Agencies on Aging and local service providers to distribute fans to eligible recipients through Operation Fan Heat Relief May 1 – Oct. 31.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 11:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An audit released Monday, April 8, highlighted a series of errors and weaknesses in DHHS operations.
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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That’s what I’d tell NC Policy Watch crybabies who continue to assert the policies of Republican legislators don’t support public education
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to be more than North Carolina's version of the Dutch boy, his finger plugging the dike of underperforming state health and pension plans
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 @ 8:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina lawmakers grappling with Medicaid reform should combine elements of competing proposals in the state House and Senate to give patients more choices while remaining accountable to taxpayers, a panel of experts at an April 13 briefing for policy makers and industry officials said.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before North Carolina considers Medicaid expansion, it should ensure its existing rolls are not bloated with ineligible recipients, and create a verification system to prevent adding even more unqualified beneficiaries, a national health policy analyst warns.
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Buoyed by Gov. Pat McCrory's announcement that he does not support expanding Medicaid rolls or creating a state-run health insurance exchange, a state House committee voted Tuesday over Democrats' objections in favor of...
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Compensation could soon be on its way to victims of North Carolina's involuntary sterilization program that was in operation in the state for decades.
Published: Friday, May 18th, 2012 @ 2:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been asked recently to sign a petition requesting that all those military men and women who were murdered or wounded in the Fort Hood massacre be allowed to be awarded a Purple Heart.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2012 @ 3:00 am
By: George H. Schryer
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