North Carolina, like many states in the US, is comprised of vibrant and diverse immigrant communities. Immigrants make up 8% of the state’s population and 10% of its workforce, contributing billions of dollars of taxes and pouring hundreds of billions in spending-power into North Carolina’s economy every year, according to 2015 statistics from the American […]
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New Year’s Resolutions
When I was younger, I would make New Year’s resolutions that I was never able to keep. After a while, I gave up on making them. A few years ago, I came up with a simple one: to always seek to be my best self and a better person in general. For this year, my […]
It’s the Most Heartbreaking Time of the Year
I don’t ‘come from money,’ so holidays have never been about receiving the latest technological innovations or a plethora of gifts. I don’t come from a large, close-knit family, so I don’t have stories about favorite, long-held holiday traditions. In college, I spent the holidays working, glad for a place to go. In grad school, […]