>>Ebola. Ebola. Ebola. It’s here and in our face – we hear it on the news, see it in our Facebook newsfeeds, and have tucked...[Read More]
Tag Archives: poverty
>>Have you gotten a raise in the last year? Probably not, if you’re like the majority of North Carolinians. Unfortunately for you (and most of...[Read More]
>>Recently I overheard two women chatting at the farmer’s market, considering a case of artisanal beets. “I mean it’s just common sense,” the first opined....[Read More]
>>It seems like a rite of passage. At some point, you’re bound to work in a restaurant. Honestly, I think if we all spent some...[Read More]
>>Women AdvaNCe is featuring personal stories about North Carolina women leading up to our second NC Women’s Summit on September 26th, 2014. This year’s Summit...[Read More]
>>A few years ago my husband got laid off shortly after the birth of our second child. After years of never giving a thought to...[Read More]
>>The teen pregnancy rate >>has dropped by nearly 10% in the last year (!)—but >>15,000 North Carolina women under the age of 20 still got pregnant....[Read More]
>>If you asked me how folks are doing in North Carolina, I’d likely poke my head outside my back door, take a peek, and pronounce...[Read More]
>>I didn’t intend to stay at home with my children. I knew that I had student loans to pay off. But what I didn’t know...[Read More]
>>BY ANN CARROLL I literally trip over a health foods market when I step out my front door. Every Tuesday, a farmer’s market...[Read More]