In 2010, I was the director of a Women, Infants, and Children’s Program, (WIC) in a rural North Carolina county. Prior to that, I worked...[Read More]
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At the time of my writing, the government has now partially been shut down for thirty-three days. I’ll admit I haven’t kept up with the...[Read More]
>>2013 wasn’t a great year for North Carolina’s budgets. Between state lawmakers championing cutbacks and the federal government shutting down, funding for many programs fell...[Read More]
>>Life got a lot bleaker for 1.7 million North Carolinians last week. That’s how many people in our state saw cuts to their food budgets...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER FERRIS A two-week partial shutdown of the United States government has taken a toll greater than anticipated on women. While politicians postured in...[Read More]
>>One of the interesting side effects of the federal government shutdown has been that people are learning about all the things the government does –...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER FERRIS My Gmail trash folder contains more than 1,500 messages from the last four weeks. Scanning the subject lines and senders I see...[Read More]