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North Carolina's state budget is now nearly 4 months overdue. For public school employees, that means the school year started without a cost-of-living raise. Many educators are feeling the financial crunch amid other rising costs. WUNC is sharing a few of their stories in the series “From Politics to Paychecks.”

Noah Adams speaks with Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution about another provision in the debate -- paycheck protection. Currently unions can use money raised from dues for political action. This provision would require unions to gain the permission of union members to use any portion of their dues for politics. Mann explains that while some want this provision to extend to corporations --that would be extremely difficult. He also explains how this requirement could extend to any organization, the Sierra Club or the Christian Coalition for example, that use dues for political activity.

Republican senators including Florida's Marco Rubio are calling for an investigation after reports that Planned Parenthood affiliates received millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Act funds.

North Carolina's Republican lawmakers are trying once more to prevent employees’ associations from collecting their members’ dues via payroll deductions.A…

In the pandemic, a third of Americans struggle to pay usual costs, even some earning over $100,000. But living on the edge financially is nothing new in the U.S. Three households share their budgets.

The economy may be on the rebound, but life is getting tougher for some people in the middle class. With rising gas prices, insurance costs, and higher payroll taxes, people are feeling squeezed. Host Michel Martin asks if there's any financial relief in sight.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews country singer Johnny Paycheck''s "The Real Mr. Heartache" a reissue of his honky-tonk music from the 1960s. (Country Music Foundation).

Ayesha Rascoe asks Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who chairs the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, about fraudulent pandemic aid.

NPR's "Day 1" series looks at major issues the next president will face in office. One issue is that Americans still aren't seeing big raises, even though the job market is slowly recovering.