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Two Takes On The Budget Issue Facing North Carolina

Representative Nelson Dollar of Wake County listens to debate on the state budget during general session at the State Capitol on June 21, 2017.
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Representative Nelson Dollar of Wake County listens to debate on the state budget during general session at the State Capitol on June 21, 2017.

Last year the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly voted to override a veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on the state budget plan.

The biennial budget went into effect on July 1, 2017, just days after it was passed. State legislators are meeting in a short session now to make adjustments to that biennial spending plan, including a decision on how to handle a budget surplus. Host Frank Stasio talks to Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, and State Budget Director Charles Perusse about some of the biggest sticking points in the budget discussion, including education spending, pay raises for state employees, and funding for prison safety and GenX cleanup. 

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Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other WUNC shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.