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Hundreds of thousands in NC will be added to Medicaid rolls this week

More than 600,000 North Carolinians are ultimately expected to qualify, with roughly half to be automatically enrolled as of Friday. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition to the long-term uninsured.…
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Treasury Secretary Yellen highlights clean energy investments in NC visit

Governor Roy Cooper joined the secretary in Bessemer City. DALLAS, N.C. — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen visited Gaston County on Thursday to discuss investments in clean energy recently made through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. During her North Carolina visit, Secretary Yellen toured Livent, a manufacturing facility in Bessemer City that makes lithium hydroxide for batteries. …