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data- and records-obsessed journalist. Feeding your brain North Carolina stories at @theassemblync.bsky.social lifelong language learner, rock climber

Budget for Hand of Hope Pregnancy Center to spend $513 in taxpayer dollars on small fetus models.
A bar chart shows that state taxpayer funding to crisis pregnancy centers hovered around $250,000 a year from 2013 to 2016, before reaching $1-2M a year in 2017 to 2020. Funding quickly rose each subsequent year, about $5.7M in 2021, $9.7M in 2022, $12.4M in 2023 and $7.5M in 2024. Money has been split between The Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, Human Coalition and grants to other anti-abortion centers.
an image showing that The Assembly’s memberships are 50% off, or $30 for a basic membership, an $75 for a premium for the year.