Congress is pushing to drastically cut food aid. Why?
Devastating cuts are on the table for communities across the country and the more than 1.4 million North Carolinians who rely on food stamps.
NC advocates call on Tillis to defend consumer watchdog
Last week, a coalition of activists and small business owners pleaded with Senator Thom Tillis to help protect the agency. Their simple message: stand with the people of North Carolina, not the billionaires. Let’s fervently hope he was listening.
Trump wants to defund the cancer treatment keeping her alive
Three years ago, Stella Adams’ doctor said there were no more standard options to treat her multi myeloma, an incurable bone cancer. But she applied for a clinical trial, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has since shown improvement, she told Cardinal & Pine recently.
Tariffs are bad for consumers, but can be brutal for small farms
Julius Tillery, a 5th generation farmer in Northampton County, spoke with Cardinal and Pine after a press conference in Raleigh laying out the damage Trump’s tariffs will bring to the state.
NC pediatrician: Senator Tillis must protect Medicaid — and North Carolina families
I’m concerned that, right now, Republican leaders in Congress are working to push through massive cuts to Medicaid — up to $880 billion or more. North Carolina’s senior U.S. Senator, Republican Thom Tillis, has supported the plans that would slash this vital program, just one year after North Carolina finally expanded it. These cuts would be devastating, especially here in rural communities where fewer employers offer health coverage and hospitals depend heavily on Medicaid reimbursements to keep their doors open.
Health providers and advocates called on U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis to help stop planned cuts to Medicaid
A coalition of progressive advocacy groups joined with local health care providers at a Raleigh press conference Thursday to encourage Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis to protect Medicaid amid proposed federal cuts.
Advocates, health providers urge Sen. Tillis to help stop Medicaid cuts
The event, which was organized by the Coalition Against Right-Wing Extremism (CARE), was intended to draw attention to a plan developed by congressional Republicans to squeeze $880 billion in cuts from Medicaid, a program that provides access to health care for about 3.1 million North Carolinians.
Coalition Statement on Mark Robinson’s unearthed online comments
This is the Mark Robinson North Carolinians know. We know his words, and we know hischaracter. He has been completely transparent about his utter disdain for women, Black people,the LGBTQ community, Jewish people, Muslim people, school shooting survivors, educators,and more. As Maya Angelou told us, “When someone shows you who they are, believe themthe first […]
Democrats, education advocates link Morrow to Robinson, describe threat to public schools
A coalition of Democratic elected officials, educators, parents and progressive advocates gathered in Raleigh on Thursday to sound alarm bells over what they say is a profound threat to public education posed by North Carolina’s Republican nominees for governor and superintendent of public instruction.
The Rev. CJ Brinson: Will you join me in loving our LGBTQIA kindred?
Robinson has said that trans people are “demonic,” that he doesn’t care “how much you cut yourself up, drug yourself up and dress yourself up; you are still either one of two things: You are either a man or a woman.”
Those are such vile things to say when studies have concluded that individuals who identify as transgender are twice as likely to die than their cisgender counterparts.