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Program Shown to Improve Health, Save Money, is on the Chopping Block

For Canton Grandmother Katie Clubb, HOP Matters

State Auditor Criticizes Swannanoa Relief Spending as Needs Persists

Letter: Keep HOP Program for Health, Farms, and Economy

NC House Proposed Their Own ‘Mini Budget’ With No Funding for Healthy Opportunities

NC House Proposed Their Qwn ‘Mini Budget’ With No Funding for Healthy Opportunities

WNC Famers Face Uncertainty; Legislators Consider Cutting Pilot Health Program Funds

Proposal for $30M for Medicaid Pilot Fails in N.C. House Ahead of July 1 Deadline

A Question of “Worthiness”: GOP Pols and the People They’re Cutting Off From Core Health Programs

June 13, 2025

Western NC Braces for End of Medicaid Program that Funded Food, Health Support

June 13, 2025

State Lawmakers Should Reconsider Plans to End Highly Successful Health Program

June 12, 2025

Episode 11: Inside Healthy Opportunities: Voices from the Pilot, Questions for the Budget

June 12, 2025

Equal Plates Project Feeding Asheville Residents Post-Helene, Funding Cuts Loom

June 9, 2025

Hunger Already an Issue in Post-Helene Western NC. Signs it Could Get Much Worse.

June 9, 2025

N.C. Legislature to Cut Funding for Healthy Opportunities Pilots

June 9, 2025

Healthy Opportunities: Worth the Investment? Episode 10 from the WNC Health Policy Initiative Podcast

June 9, 2025

Opinion: A Healthier NC Hangs in the Balance Without Continued State and Federal Funding

An opinion by Laurie Stradley, DrPH, CEO, for Impact Health In 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services granted the state of North Carolina

June 6, 2025

Western NC Braces for End of Medicaid Program that Funded Food, Health Support

June 6, 2025