Down Home is joining All in For North Carolina, Lean Left Vermont, Team 4NC, Movement Voter Project, Swing Blue Alliance, Swing Left Peninsula, and Together We Elect to plan for our North Carolina future.
Last week we saw a historic win for rural NC with the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Now we are pressing forward to hold our leaders accountable to finishing the work for working class people.
We are Down Home worked across rural North Carolina towns to drum up interest in and turn out the vote for local municipal elections this past fall. Hear from our canvassers what that work was like and their stories from the field!
For decades, wage gains have mostly flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers, and those of us who find ourselves towards the middle or bottom have only experienced stagnation. Our government needs to make an investment into poor and working families or the engine of our economy is going to seize.
In our small North Carolina towns, some of these races come down to a coin toss! How much do you know about NC’s close races? Take our quiz!
From schools to healthcare, there has been chronic underfunding in our communities for decades. Meanwhile, our wages have stayed stagnant while the cost of living has skyrocketed for working families. We need a break.
