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4514
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Does North Carolina have a citizen legislature - one in which legislators met in a part-time body in Raleigh each year but still hold jobs back home? With sessions now lasting over 200 days, many wonder if being a legislator has become full-time. Factors indicating this change include longer sessions; issues that require calling the legislature back into session to deal with; and many study commissions and investigative committees that meet between sessions.
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North Carolina Insight
(NoCar JK 4101 N3x), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Feb 2000,
p2-29, il, f
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Predatory lending, or loaning money for home loans based on unethical lending standards, has gotten some North Carolina citizens deeply in debt. An example is 89-year-old Dezell Wiley, whose home was debt-free, but now finds herself $70,000 in debt. In 1999, the General Assembly passed a law which is considered one of the most aggressive in the country in regulating this unethical practice.
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