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What does the Health and Human Services Secretary do?
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2008-12-05 15:38Oversees the state's social welfare and health care programs.
As head of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, the governor-appointed secretary manages state health programs, mental health services and employment assistance, among other programs.
The department typically has the largest budget of the Cabinet or the Council of State, with money coming from the state and federal government. In 2007-08, its $16.5 billion budget was nearly three times the spending of all nine other Cabinet departments combined.
With more than 16,000 employees, it is typically among the largest three departments in the Cabinet or the Council of State.
The secretary's 2008-09 annual salary was $120,363.
There have been two female Health and Human Services secretaries: Dr. Sarah Morrow in the 1970s and Carmen Hooker Buell (later Odom) in the 2000s.
In 1971, the legislature created the N.C. Department of Human Resources during the administration of Gov. Bob Scott to put more than 300 state agencies handling similar programs on mental health and social services.
Throughout the 1970s, programs on vocational rehabilitation, aging, Medicaid and rural health were added to the department's responsibilities.
In 1989, services for the deaf and hard of hearing and public health programs were also added.
In 1997, the name was changed to the Department of Health and Human Services.
It is one of 10 Cabinet-level positions in North Carolina.
The department is outlined in general statutes under Article 3 of G.S. 143B.
Obama on the air again in N.C.
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2008-06-19 13:11
Barack Obama is on the air in North Carolina again.
The Democratic presidential nominee will begin airing a 60-second ad, "Country I Love," in 18 states starting tomorrow.
The ad notes Obama's upbringing by a single mother and his grandparents, stressing Midwestern values of "accountability and self-reliance" along with "love of country." It also stresses his record as a lawmaker.
In the ad, Obama says his values led him to "pass up Wall Street jobs" and work in Chicago neighborhoods hurt by the closure of steel plants.
"That's why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work, cut taxes for working families and extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected," he says.
The ad will also air in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia.
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