The federal share goes down every year because North Carolina is becoming wealthier every year. The reduction will drop the federal government's share of North Carolina's Medicaid payments by a full percentage point to 61.46 percent. Reported by the Associated Press. They are tax increases. You can call them loopholes, but many were enacted for purposes to give certain breaks to people who needed them.
Money is a big part of it.
But it just keeps getting harder and harder and harder to comply with all the things we've got to do. Two Charlotte day care centers announced in April that they would close. The centers were among North Carolina's higher-rated child care centers. They closed because the costs of doing business were too great and because they could not compete with Bright Beginnings, a government subsidized child care program run in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. More than 2,000 college students on Wednesday marched from N.C. State University to and through the State Legislative Building to protest a proposed reduction in state appropriations to schools in the University of North Carolina system.