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Governor Stein Signs State Budget, Enacting Historic Pay Raises for Teachers and Law Enforcement
The Fine Print: NC’s $34B Budget Includes DEI Cuts, Ferry Tolls, AI, Prison Funds and More
Governor Stein Establishes Health Care Affordability Commission Co-Chaired by NCDHHS Secretary and NC State Treasurer
Community Voices from North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots Program: Implications for Designing and Evaluating Programs to Address Upstream Drivers of Health
New Data Show the Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOP) Program, which Shut Down Last Summer, Saved North Carolina Residents with Medicaid More Money Than Previously Estimated.

NC Republicans’ ‘Band-Aid budget’ deals yet another blow to Medicaid | Opinion
When Gov. Josh Stein signed a stopgap spending bill into law this week, he called it a “Band-Aid budget,” but even that might be generous.
August 10, 2025

The Healthy Opportunities Pilot Drives $114M in Economic Impact and Creates Nearly 900 Jobs Across Western North Carolina
New analysis quantifies HOP’s ripple effects across diverse WNC sectors and industries Asheville, NC—A newly released economic impact analysis reveals that North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities
July 21, 2025