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Take it from a teacher

Public school teachers are leaving North Carolina for greener pastures, and who could blame them? Progress North Carolina created a video series - Project First Person - to give North Carolinians the chance to hear from teachers directly about the challenges and consequences of state lawmakers failure to fully-fund public education in our state.

Take it from a teacher

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This is what Election Day is really about
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This is what Election Day is really about

What kind of Congress do you want - a Congress that fiddles while Rome burns or one that is willing to do the hard work the American people want - rebuilding our country to create millions of jobs, raising wages and empowering workers to bargain for better, protecting and expanding Social Security, and holding accountable bad apples on Wall Street and Corporate America?

This is what Election Day is really about

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It’s the Senate, Stupid!
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It’s the Senate, Stupid!

In 1992, political strategist James Carville coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” for Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign against sitting President George H. W. Bush. This year the theme should be “It’s the Senate, stupid,” because the party that controls the Senate is going to have a significant impact on a wide variety of issues important to workers.

It’s the Senate, Stupid!