North Carolina’s economy and tax system are failing more and more of the state’s families and children. The rising cost of basic family necessities, wages that are not keeping up with inflation and a tax system that increasingly relies upon middle-class and low-wage workers are combining to make it more difficult for many North Carolina families to make ends meet.
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This page features a listing of Action for Children's Economic Security Publications, featured in chronological order (most recent first). To see more information, click "Read More."
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 Child Poverty in North Carolina: A Preventable Epidemic highlights the stunting effect poverty has on children’s cognitive development, academic success, health outcomes and opportunities to improve economic circumstances.
Specifically, Child Poverty in
North Carolina: A Preventable Epidemic recommends that
North Carolina policymakers work to:
- Support families with decent wages; affordable, high-quality child care and housing; and access to tax credits and health insurance.
- Strengthen communities through increased access to traditional banking services, improved public and adult education, environmental clean-up efforts and strategic economic development investments to attract socially responsible businesses.
- Invest in children’s futures through increased opportunities for asset creation, such as appropriate savings vehicles, affordable financial education for adults and children, greater support for small businesses and increased access to homeownership.
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2006 Children's Index - May 2006
 The 2006 North Carolina Children's Index includes more than 75 indicators of child and youth well-being in the following areas: child health and safety, economic (in)security, early care and education, child maltreatment, juvenile justice and demographics. The 2006 Index also includes a special section highlighting how the children and youth of
North Carolina are developing in positive ways.
Copies of the Children's Index are free. If you would like to order multiple copies of the Index, we do ask that you pay postage costs. Please email your name, organization, mailing address and phone number to admin@ncchild.org
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 North Carolina children who live in families above 200% of the federal poverty line—about $38,700 for a family of four—are more likely to enjoy excellent physical and dental health, more likely to be read to as young children, more likely to participate in after-school activities and sports, and less likely to repeat a grade than their lower-income peers.
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