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Roy Cooper’s Secret Sauce

The Democratic Senate candidate is campaigning on his rural upbringing, but his recipe for success is less remarkable than you might think.

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Trump thwarted in hunt for rare noncitizen voters as midterms near

Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm elections. Even a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision giving states access to a supercharged Department of Homeland Security computer program to verify voters’ citizenship will have […]

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Census changes proposed by Trump administration put accuracy, money for NC at risk, critics say

At its core, U.S. census data is about money, government representation, and community visibility.  The Trump administration has proposed changing the census to stop counting noncitizens without green cards, eliminate questions about race and ethnicity, and alter the definition of “usual residence.” The administration also wants to bar questions about gender identity.  NC Counts, a […]

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K-12 spending, absenteeism programs face risks as feds stop key monitoring, watchdog says

The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension this year of a comprehensive monitoring process puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, according to a new report by the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office. The congressional watchdog’s report also raised concerns about the reliability of federal absenteeism data, noting that […]

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NC welcomes Supreme Court ruling on voter citizenship checks

The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the go-ahead on Friday in a 6-3 vote to use a revised federal database to verify voters’ citizenship ahead of the November General Election. The post NC welcomes Supreme Court ruling on voter citizenship checks appeared first on Carolina Journal.

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