Abstract:
President Ronald Reagan’s economic plan has affected the way North Carolinians live and work. Triangle area residents Candice Carraway, David Johnson, Jan Schetzina, William Connolly, and Sandy Hendrickson explain the personal effects of Reaganomics on their lives. The results have been reported have been mostly negative. Reaganomics has seen funding for Legal Services decrease, has been slow to fund and study AIDS research and education, has increased spending for military research, has failed to address the affordable housing crisis, and has decreased federal aid to small towns and cities for federal projects.