Five Ways the Inflation Reduction Act Helps NC
It’s been a year since the IRA passed in Washington…. how will working class folks in rural North Carolina feel its impact?
August 29, 2023
It’s been a year since the IRA passed in Washington…. how will working class folks in rural North Carolina feel its impact?
We love back to school time with all the kids excited about their new classmates and books and backpacks and whatnot. But if Mark Robinson had his way, we’d barely have schools to send our kids off to.
Union County mom, Regan Shaw, moved back to the United States to enroll her son in our excellent public schools… but now she sees a small but vocal minority trying to undermine public education in her county, leading her to wonder: Do these attacks really represent American values?
JoCo is a fast-growing county near Raleigh, and because of neglect and divestment in education here, retaining teachers is a problem. Since many of our local members are have kids in the school system, they saw how teachers are frequently asked to pay for school supplies out of their own pockets – to the tune of almost $500. That’s a lot of money, especially for someone underpaid and seeing more lucrative contracts in other places.
When our members in Watauga County asked their neighbors this spring about what important issues affect them the most, housing came up over and over
This past weekend, poor and working class people from all across the state gathered to learn about what it means to run for office in their local communities and to explore what building power for working people could look like in North Carolina. #BuildingPower
Photo: Down Home joined People’s Action and folks from across the country in Washington, D.C. to advocate for affordable housing. New online application now available
Samantha Lias has been an active member of our Down Home Granville chapter and now joins our team as the new organizer in Person County! Welcome Sam!
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We’ve got work to do.
We want working families to have more than a seat at the political table when decisions about our communities are made – we want to be making the decisions ourselves.
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