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Insight Issue - 04/28/2010
AGING.pdf Volume 23, No. 2 This issue of Insight takes a look at significant ...
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Profiles in Poverty by Mike McLaughlin 4 ^t" a 50 NORTH CAROLINA INSIGHT i Numbers and statistics abound about what constitutes poverty and who is impoverished, but to the thousands of people across North Carolina struggling to put food on the table and ...
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An environmental index could track emissions of sulfur dioxide and other air pollutants from industries, autos, and other sources. Other States Move Forward with Environmental Index Reports Four states recently have produced reports thatcould serve as ...
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ft b . State Environmental Index Still On The Drawing Board by Tom Mather In October 1988, the N. C. Center for Public Policy Research called on state government to produce an "environmental index" that would chart the health of North Carolina's air, ...
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Four Trends to Watch B ased on her reading of 1990 Census data, andthe results of her own exhaustive trends sur- vey, Insight asked Sheron Morgan, director of the Office of State Planning, to reflect on four trends and their implications for state ...
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Toiling in the Fields of Migrant Education M ariano Sanchez roves the fertile farmlands of Yadkin County in a 1967 Chevrolet Belair= its unmuffled engine roar- ing throatily and the windows rolled down for ventilation. His students call the car ...
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The Latest Trend: Trend Watching To Be Required by Law? S heron Morgan, director of the Office of State Planning, has long believed the state should incorporate more long-range thinking into the process of making decisions about im- portant issues facing ...
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A County Grapples with Growth Franklin County faces a different kind ofproblem than most rural North Carolina counties as it looks to the future. Call it a case of growing pains. Schools, social services, landfill capacity, law enforcement =all are ...
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N t } w NORTH CAROLINA'S DEMOGRAPHIC DESTINY: The Policy Implications of the 1990 Census by Ken Otterbourg and Mike McLaughlin This article examines the results of the 1990 Census and explores the policy implications for North Carolina. Four major ...
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2010 VO L . 23, NO S . 2-3 N o r t h C a r o l i n a C e n t e r f o r P u b l i c P o l i c y R e s e a r c h The Art of Aging: Our Elders, Our State North Carolina Medicaid and North Carolina’s Aging Population 2 North Carolina ...