Forwarded from the NC Women United alerts list. This is the detailed information that I referred to in the e-mail you received.
Mary
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Today, Action for Children North Carolina and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine are pleased to announce the publication of the 2007 North Carolina Child Health Report Card, which demonstrates that while North Carolina’s efforts to ensure positive health outcomes for children and youth have shown improvement in many areas, there is still cause for concern. Data from the report highlight the following:Read More »2007 North Carolina Child Health Report Card
NC State Women’s Center, Saint Augustine’s College, and Shaw University are sponsoring this area’s first Running & Winning workshop on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at Peace College in Raleigh. This interactive workshop is designed to give young women in high school and college the opportunity to explore public service as a career. During the session, participants will meet with local women office holders and explore their own leadership abilities.
The following two MS Word files were developed to collect candidate responses to a set of questions developed for educating voters to issues and candidates for the 2006 election.  … Read More »Brevard Branch Voter Guide Templates – NC House & Senate, US House
In response to Supreme Court case, House passes bill restoring civil rights stand The American Association of UniversityWomen congratulates the House of Representatives on passing… Read More »AAUW Applauds House Passage of Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
AAUWNC 2007 public policy action item is now a reality! The General Assembly adopted a 3.5% NC refundable EITC. The EITC will give a tax… Read More »NC Earned Income Tax Credit Passed
VICTORY ON PUBLIC FINANCING!!!!! Good news to report-HB 1517 passed the NC Senate yesterday!! This bill creates a public financing option for 3 Council of… Read More »2007 Victory on Public Financing
Adam Searing is probably one of the leading and most knowledgable advocates (NC Justice Center) for healthcare in our state. The article below was published… Read More »Op-Ed article on NC Health Care
Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo introduced the Young Advocates Toolkit project to the attendees at the AAUW NC 2007 summer meeting. This project is funded in part by an AAUW public policy impact grant and is a collaboration with NC Action for Children. All branches are encouaged to use the project to make connections to at least one local campus with this project whose goal is empowerment of the students.
AAUW Celebrates Passage of Bill to Ease Student Loan Burden Bill is largest investment in higher education since the GI bill Washington – The American… Read More »GREAT INVESTMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION