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NC joins lawsuit over FEMA grant conditions

NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island on July 23 against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in homeland security and disaster-response grants to states unless they adopt the Trump administration policies on elections and immigration.

Theresa Opeka
Opinion

Federalist 28: Idea of restraining legislative authority in regard to common defense considered, cont…

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

Alexander Hamilton

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Opinion

Community ties boost social mobility

For a state accustomed to faring well on many economic and policy comparisons, North Carolina’s middling score on social mobility ought to make us uncomfortable. According to a fascinating new report from the Archbridge Institute, our state ranks 23rd in fostering social mobility. Archbridge, a think tank with a mission to “lift barriers to human...

John Hood
Opinion

Test scores show modest improvement

Test scores are up for North Carolina’s public-school students — a welcome development, although the news isn’t all good. On average, 55% of students in grades three or higher tested proficient on last year’s state exams. For the 2023-24 school year, that figure was 54.2%. In 2018-19, the last full academic year before COVID, it...

John Hood
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