In this report, Piedmont Rising highlights the ways in which North Carolina's rural communities face increasing difficulty accessing health care, how it impacts their well-being and possible solutions.

In this report, Piedmont Rising discusses how the novel coronavirus exacerbates and highlights racial health disparities in North Carolina.

 Reports show that many veterans and their loved ones would gain access to health care if Medicaid were expanded — and risks to their health access would increase if the Affordable Care Act were repealed. 

 COVID-19 can affect anyone, yet new data show that communities of color are disproportionately impacted by pre-existing, racial/ethnic and economic disparities in light of this pandemic. 

 The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has failed to assist the vast majority of small businesses, including in North Carolina. 

Piedmont Rising provides an update how the novel coronavirus exacerbates and highlights racial health disparities in North Carolina.

This report makes clear that LGBTQ North Carolinians must be protected -- and our lawmakers can take concrete steps to ensure that happens

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic demonstrates the need for robust advocacy efforts calling on lawmakers to fight for mental health care access.

There are a range of possible solutions that would help ease the burden of high prescription drug costs on North Carolinians. 

 Seniors consistently take more medication for chronic illnesses, and the impact of these high costs results in financial strain for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, to say nothing of the millions of seniors across the US.