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Save the Earned Income Tax Credit in NC

Save the Earned Income Tax Credit in NC

01 Mar, 2013

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Save the Earned Income Tax Credit in NC

The Earned Income Tax Credit is a powerful anti-poverty tool that must be protected by state lawmakers as they consider changes to the tax code. Unfortunately, Republican state lawmakers have filed a bill to cut the state EITC for 2013 and could allow the credit to expire completely next year.

Save the Earned Income Tax Credit in NC

Save the date to Save Our Postal Service (3/24)

Save the date to Save Our Postal Service (3/24)

01 Mar, 2013

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Save the date to Save Our Postal Service (3/24)

The National Association of Letter Carriers is taking action to rally support to save America's Postal Service and Saturday delivery with rallies in Raleigh and Charlotte on Sunday, March 24. There are over 35,000 good-paying, union jobs at stake.

Save the date to Save Our Postal Service (3/24)

Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

01 Mar, 2013

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Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

After tobacco farmworker advocates rallied outside the corporate headquarters of The Pantry, Inc. in Cary, NC, today, asking that company's CEO to keep up the pressure on Reynolds to do right by its tobacco field workers, our campaign for justice will continue with other actions this month and beyond.

Upcoming tobacco farmworker solidarity actions

Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

22 Feb, 2013

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Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

Here's the bottom line. Pat McCrory makes money if Duke Energy makes money. Now, SB 10 would let him appoint Duke's regulators who could then approve Duke's double-digit hike in your electrical rates. We say that's malarkey!

Pat McCrory, Governor (R-Duke Energy)?

Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

22 Feb, 2013

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Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

The North Carolina Justice Center is raising the alarm about possible repeal of our state's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for working families - AND - North Carolina's estate tax on multi-million-dollar estates as bills to do both advance in the state legislature.

Infographic: "The Great Tax Shift" underway in NC

Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

22 Feb, 2013

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Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary

FLOC, the union of farmworkers in North Carolina, will rally in Cary, NC on March 1 and deliver a letter to the CEO of the Pantry, Inc. to urge that company to pressure Reynolds American to ensure the labor rights of farmworkers are respected.

Support tobacco farmworkers March 1 in Cary