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High Cotton on Jones Street: Lobbying in 2024
In 2024, corporations, trade associations, hospitals, insurers, utilities, and assorted other interests paid a combined $76,829,795 for private lobbyists to press their interests in the North Carolina General Assembly. That figure, based on public data from the Secretary of State’s Lobbying Compliance Division, held essentially steady against the $78.3 million spent in 2023, but the
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North Carolina’s Next Chapter
A strategy for how North Carolina can use growth to improve and sustain the quality of life for all our state’s people, in all our state’s places.
Our Daily Bread: The Hourly Workers Package
North Carolina’s hourly workers have been overlooked and abused for a very long time. It’s time to put them back at the front of the line for growth, and make work pay again.
The Road to Home: Fair and Affordable Housing for North Carolina
In this new report, we lay out a policy roadmap to create fair, affordable housing for all of North Carolina – giving our state a “Road to Home.”
Voices from the Break Room: Working-class values in North Carolina
Carolina Forward dives deep into what North Carolina’s working-class voters think, believe and hope for – and what they want to see in political leadership.
Our Indivisible Destiny: The Case for Democracy and Reform for the Future
“Our Indivisible Destiny” lays out a package of reforms to make North Carolina’s representative government more transparent, responsive, and fair.