John Locke Foundation Senior Vice President Becki Gray and Chairman John Hood discuss N.C. budget challenges linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic shutdown. Gray and Hood offered these comments during the June 19, 2020, edition of “NC SPIN.”
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