NC Policy Watch is a public policy organization with a simple mission: to change the way our elected officials debate important issues facing North Carolina and, ultimately, to improve the quality of life in the state. NC Policy Watch generates a large and steady flow of timely, accurate and hard-hitting commentaries, analyses and investigative reports that inform elected officials, advocates, the news media and the public at-large. The NC Policy Watch blog, The Progressive Pulse, is one of North Carolina’s most active and important public policy websites. Policy Watch Investigates is one of the state’s most important sources of high quality, independent reporting.