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Over time it will become clear to them that the real reason that their taxes are going up is so that the taxes of big corporations and the wealthy can be kept down.

Greg did a wonderful job posting about the upcoming Camp WellStone events - thank you, Greg - but I want to pile on with a regular post so folks who may not be paying attention to even notices get the whole story.

Camp WellStone is a training program that teaches progressives how to win on issues and elect good candidates, running from 2-9pm Friday, 9am-6pm Saturday, and 9am-3:30pm Sunday, NCSU McKimmon Center, Raleigh

Camp WellStone is a training program that teaches progressives how to win on issues and elect good candidates, running from 2-9pm Friday, 9am-6pm Saturday, and 9am-3:30pm Sunday, NCSU McKimmon Center, Raleigh

Camp WellStone is a training program that teaches progressives how to win on issues and elect good candidates, running from 2-9pm Friday, 9am-6pm Saturday, and 9am-3:30pm Sunday, NCSU McKimmon Center, Raleigh

Breaking news:

Raleigh—Two of North Carolina’s leading sources for progressive public policy, the North Carolina Justice Center and North Carolina Policy Watch, announced today that they are joining forces.

The honorables in Raleigh are hard at work this week, sweating like field workers to do the people's business. In what some might call a legislative breakthrough, they are pulling out the stops to give migrant laborers all the comforts of home as they work to pick the food you and I eat every day.

A bill making its way through the legislature would begin to change some of the state's farmworker housing standards. The bill, which has the support of farm groups and advocates for workers, would add new housing inspectors and force more checks at problem farms, while requiring fewer checks at farms that consistently exceed standards.

The only change in what farmers must provide: every worker would be the guarantee of a mattress.

When it comes to covering health care issues in North Carolina, nobody does it with more passion than Adam Searing at the North Carolina Health Access Coalition, which is part of the NC Justice Center. I don't always agree with Adam, but he mostly gets it right. In one of his regular email updates this week, he had this to say about Beverly Perdue.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FOCUSES ON FUTURE: Eleven states have already taken action to move towards covering all children with sliding-scale affordable coverage. Last week, while the Senate dithered about covering kids, Lieutenant Governor Perdue acted.