Roy Cooper

She needs a second income for her family, but she just may not be able to work anymore because she can't afford the child care.

Seeing $60 a month

extra in utility bills from stephanie who's in charlotte who's telling me that she's even turning her thermostat up high into the 70s higher than it ever is that it's ever been and then she's still getting sixty dollars a month more

and insurance.

I talked to Gerard who's graduated from college and it's excited.

And then he looks at what he's going to get paid and how much rent he's going to have to pay.

The housing costs are through the roof.

We've had hundreds of thousands of people to lose healthcare in North Carolina because, uh,

Michael Wiley encouraged and this administration pushed the One Big Beautiful Bill that took those health care subsidies away.

And now they're struggling to get health care.

And remember, on Medicaid expansion, Republican Tom Tillis, who is there now, stood up on the floor and said, I can't vote for this One Big Beautiful Bill because I don't know what I'd tell the people of North Carolina.

He knew that many people were gonna lose their health insurance and remember the Medicaid cuts will come after the election.

And we know that a lot of people in North Carolina are gonna be facing that.

Too many people now just have too much month at the end of the money.

I've got a plan to make stuff cost less at RoyCooper.com.

You can go and review our specific policy proposals, starting with things like taking back the constitutional authority on trade and tariffs and getting rid of these chaotic tariffs that are sending costs through the roof for consumers and small businesses.

Well, it just shows you that it's not just anecdotal.

People telling you these stories, when you see credit scores going down, you know people are having a hard time affording their bills right now.

And not only do we see that empirical data, we also see data from Vanguard and Fidelity who are telling us that people are not saving as much.

They're having to dip into their saving account.