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Public Education
Our schools are underfunded and everyone knows it. Teachers are leaving. Class sizes are growing. And your tax dollars are being funneled to private schools with zero accountability.
The Opportunity Scholarship voucher program will cost $6.5 billion over the next decade. 92% of that money is going to families whose kids were already in private school. The expansion passed without any increase in teacher pay. NC ranks dead last in per-pupil spending. 28 rural counties have zero or one private school to even use a voucher at.
What I'll do:
I'll fight to freeze the voucher expansion until we fund the schools we already have. If we're going to spend $6.5 billion, let's spend it where 85% of our kids actually go.
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Healthcare Access
We've got a physician shortage and a coverage gap. You shouldn't have to choose between your health and your bills.
Medicaid providers are cutting services because the state won't fund them properly. Reimbursement rates were slashed because the legislature can't pass a budget. People are losing access to therapy, pharmacy benefits, and primary care. You deserve a healthcare system that actually works.
What I'll do:
I'll push to expand Medicaid fully and fix reimbursement rates so providers stop leaving. You shouldn't have to drive 45 minutes to see a doctor because the state won't pay yours enough to stay.
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Corporate Accountability
Your power bill went up. Duke Energy's profits went up 61%. Then Raleigh made it worse.
Duke Energy made $4.4 billion last year. The General Assembly responded by passing a law that shifted $24.8 million in energy costs off big industrial users and onto families like yours. Meanwhile, tax breaks keep going out the door, but nobody checks if the jobs ever showed up. No clawbacks. No audits. No receipts.
What I'll do:
Every tax break gets a clawback provision. The deal is simple: if the jobs don't show up, the money comes back. And I'll fight to undo the cost shift that's making you cover Duke Energy's bills so they can keep their profits.
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Affordability
Everything costs more. Your paycheck doesn't.
Groceries are up. Rent keeps climbing. Childcare costs more than some people's mortgages. And now property tax reassessments are hitting homeowners who haven't moved in decades. Not because they got richer, but because the market did. Families are getting squeezed from every direction, and the people in Raleigh are busy cutting corporate taxes instead of helping.
What I'll do:
I'll push for a property tax "circuit breaker." That's a cap that keeps reassessments from pushing people out of homes they've lived in for years. And I'll fight to make childcare costs deductible on your state taxes. Right now Raleigh treats childcare like a luxury, but we know that good, affordable childcare is what our families deserve.