Logan Rockefeller Harris (Courtesy photo)
For 30 years now, the nonpartisan North Carolina Budget and Tax Center has been our state’s preeminent research nonprofit in the fields of fiscal and economic policy, and in recent years one of its signature products has been the biennial Living Income Standard report. The report documents what it actually costs for families of various sizes to make ends meet in all of the state’s 100 counties. Recently the group released its 2025 report and as Newsline’s Rob Schofield learned in a conversation with the author – BTC Research Manager Logan Rockefeller Harris – the report shows once again why both the federal government definition of poverty and North Carolina’s minimum wage law are hopelessly out of date.
Click here to listen to our full interview with Harris.
Click here to read the 2025 Living Income Standard report.
