• Implement small business tax credits or grants and provide reasonable access for local entrepreneurs.

💼 Small businesses make up over 99% of all businesses in North Carolina and employ more than 1.7 million people statewide. But too often, local entrepreneurs — especially in rural areas — face barriers to funding due to complex applications or lack of access to capital. By streamlining access to tax credits and startup grants, we can help small businesses not just survive, but thrive. This kind of support keeps money in local communities, sparks job growth, and revitalizes main streets across our district.

📚 Source: U.S. Small Business Administration – NC Profile

• Fund rural innovation hubs that support entrepreneurship and job training.
  
  
• Invest in green energy jobs – including solar, wind, and promote sustainable agriculture

🌱North Carolina is a national leader in solar energy, ranking 4th in the U.S. for installed solar capacity and supporting thousands of clean energy jobs across both urban and rural communities. Wind and bioenergy are also growing sectors here — especially in coastal and agricultural regions. But recent provisions buried in the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill” include rollbacks of federal tax credits and research grants for renewable energy, disproportionately hurting states like ours that rely on these incentives to attract clean energy investment (Time, 2025). If these cuts move forward, thousands of NC jobs in clean energy construction, maintenance, and agricultural innovation could vanish or be delayed — all while we fall further behind in both sustainability and economic competitiveness.

📚 Sources:

• • NC Sustainable Energy Association
  • Solar Energy Industries Association – NC Facts
  • Time Magazine, July 2025 – Clean Energy Cuts
    
    

• Support a sound federal budget- end giveaways to corporations and the ultra-wealthy while Congress ignores the deficit.