NC Housing Coalition director Samuel Gunter on the disinvestment in public housing, the latest on McDougald Terrace and the impact of spiraling housing costs on North Carolina families.

NC Community College System President Peter Hans discusses the effort to dramatically increase the number of North Carolinians who hold post-secondary degrees or credentials. Click here to learn more about the You Hire Education campaign.

Read more about Higher Ed Works and their special series on university governance.

Learn more from SELC about how attacks on NEPA could strip critical oversight. Comments on the Trump Administration’s changes to NEPA should be submitted on or before March 10, 2020. Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and follow the online instructions for submitting comments to Docket ID No. CEQ-2019-0003

Read the full NC Justice Center report: Too lax, too often.

House Minority Leader Darren Jackson on the political divide that has prevented state lawmakers from finding common ground on teacher pay and Medicaid expansion.

Jeff Dillman of the Fair Housing Project at Legal Aid discusses the State of Fair Housing in North Carolina. Read the latest report.

WRAL-TV producer Clay Johnson on the upcoming documentary “Out of the Darkness” that examines a startling rise in the suicide rate among NC teens. “Out of the Darkness” debuts on Jan. 23, 2020. Learn more here.

Matt Ellinwood, Director of the Education & Law Project at the NC Justice Center, discusses adequacy and equity in school funding in the wake of the WestEd/Leandro report, which recommends nearly $8 billion in additional public school funding be allocated in the next seven years for North Carolina’s public schools. Read the findings in the WestEd report here.