Rights of Unmarried Couples and Their Children

BE IT RESOLVED that the NCAWA supports legislation that protects and enhances the legal rights of unmarried couples and their children.

• A nonpartisan nominating commission, generally reflective of the gender and racial composition of the community, which recruits applicants for judicial vacancies, screens judicial candidates, and submits a list of names of qualified judicial candidates to the governor or other appointing authority; and
• A requirement that the nominating commission take into account diversity on the bench in submitting the list of names to the governor or other appointing authority; and
• A requirement that the governor or other appointing authority is constrained to choose the judicial appointee from the list of names submitted by the nominating commission; and

WHEREAS, a system of merit selection of judges may lead to an increase in the number of women in the judiciary; therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED that NCAWA supports legislation providing for the merit selection of judges, provided that such merit selection system includes the elements described above.
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Living Income
 

WHEREAS, over 1.1 million North Carolina households are working and filing tax returns but do not have an adequate income to support their most basic subsistence needs; and

WHEREAS, the real cost to live in North Carolina is 1 1/2 to 2 times the federal poverty level; and

WHEREAS, the percent of North Carolinians living below poverty level has remained constant throughout much of 1990?s in spite of a booming state economy and that women, minorities and children are disproportionately living in poverty and working in jobs paying less than $8.50 per hour; and

WHEREAS, most low-income households require additional assistance to help them meet their families? basic needs and the demands of working, but are often not receiving cash assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security, child care, Health Choice or other public benefit because of waiting lists and/or federal or state restrictions placed on these programs; and

WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the people and the state of North Carolina if all persons have adequate income to support the basic needs of their family; therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED that NCAWA does hereby endorse the enactment of State and Federal laws, regulations and policies that assist all North Carolinians to bring home an adequate income to support their families basic needs.
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1. Women in poverty -- their need for more money, good jobs, child care and housing;
2. Pregnancy -- especially as it affects poor and teen women;
3. Improved child care options;
4. Care for the elderly;
5. Collection of child support; and

WHEREAS, Regional Task Force Meetings have examined the facts and issues set out in the Draft Agenda to further refine the needs and ideas of North Carolina women; and

WHEREAS, with substantial input from members of the NCAWA, the Draft Agenda will be rewritten and republished in January, 1989, to include the findings of the Regional Task Force Meetings;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the NCAWA endorses the legislative issues as currently identified by the North Carolina Women's Legislative Agenda and authorizes the Board, in its discretion, to endorse the issues as finally identified for the 1989 legislative session, and to work for the enactment of appropriate legislation and for the education of women at the local level on these issues and on the legislative lobbying process
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1. Preservation of the right to trial by jury;
2. Preservation of the present right of victims and their families to be made whole;
3. Support of requirements that the insurance industry provide to the Insurance Commissioner full and accurate disclosure of financial records necessary for determination of equitable insurance rates;
4. Support of alternative methods to tort reform to ensure that all pregnant women have access to physicians for pre-natal care and delivery.

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