Why do we need to talk about the budget? Well, the new NC legislative session is underway and with it comes a new North Carolina budget with tremendous consequences for NC families.
In the next few months, North Carolina lawmakers will be making $20 billion worth of decisions that will impact families and communities on everything from education and health care to child care and more. At the same time, it seems likely that changes at the federal level will end up shifting even greater responsibility for supporting healthy communities down to the states, making your voices more important than ever.
The budget process is complex, but it’s an area where it’s critically important for the voices of families to be heard. MomsRising has partnered with the NC Budget and Tax Center to develop “A Mom’s Guide to the NC Budget”, which will be the starting point for our meetups.