Jamie is from Fairview, North Carolina. He attended A. C. Reynolds High School and Warren Wilson College. He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with a concentration in sustainable agriculture and a bachelor’s degree in history from Warren Wilson College. He lives with his wife and their three sons on his family’s Hickory Nut Gap Farm.

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Jamie Ager is originally from Fairview, North Carolina. He earned degrees in environmental studies and history from Warren Wilson College and later completed the Leadership Development Program at North Carolina State University. Ager lives with his wife, Amy, and their three children in Fairview.

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Jamie currently works as the CEO and Co-Founder of Hickory Nut Gap, a regenerative agriculture and sustainable meat company in Western North Carolina.

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Jamie's campaign for U.S. House in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District is his first run for public office.

Supports expanding grants and the child tax credit for young families.

Supports expanding rural broadband and cell coverage to help small farms and shops reach customers worldwide.

Supports investments and programs to boost economic development, manufacturing, and modern jobs.

Supports reducing bureaucratic hurdles and increasing loans and grants for small businesses.

Supports programs for first-time home buyers and public service employees, including teachers, firefighters, and first responders.

Supports tax code reform to ensure higher earners pay more and advocates eliminating taxes on tips.

Plans to make government institutions more "customer focused, nimble, and an efficient use of taxpayer dollars."

- Supports expanding grants and the child tax credit for young families.
- Supports expanding rural broadband and cell coverage to help small farms and shops reach customers worldwide.
- Supports investments and programs to boost economic development, manufacturing, and modern jobs.
- Supports reducing bureaucratic hurdles and increasing loans and grants for small businesses.
- Supports programs for first-time home buyers and public service employees, including teachers, firefighters, and first responders.
- Supports tax code reform to ensure higher earners pay more and advocates eliminating taxes on tips.
- Plans to make government institutions more "customer focused, nimble, and an efficient use of taxpayer dollars."

Economy

Supports increased federal funding to enhance firefighter pay and rural fire stations, ensuring first responders are adequately equipped to handle crises like Hurricane Helene.

Believes in improving pay and training for law enforcement and addressing the root causes of crime.

- Supports increased federal funding to enhance firefighter pay and rural fire stations, ensuring first responders are adequately equipped to handle crises like Hurricane Helene.
- Believes in improving pay and training for law enforcement and addressing the root causes of crime.

Public Safety

Supports Medicare negotiating drug prices and capping costs for insulin and other essentials.

Supports improving mental health support by expanding education programs, allowing earlier intervention, and enhancing inpatient and outpatient services.

Supports lowering prescription drug prices.

Supports "robust" Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

Supports Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

- Supports Medicare negotiating drug prices and capping costs for insulin and other essentials.
- Supports a public healthcare option.
- Supports improving mental health support by expanding education programs, allowing earlier intervention, and enhancing inpatient and outpatient services.
- Supports lowering prescription drug prices.
- Supports Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

Healthcare

Supports teaching personal finance in schools.

- Supports teaching personal finance in schools.

Education

Supports protecting public lands and environmental stewardship.

Advocates regenerative farming and farmland preservation.

- Supports protecting public lands and environmental stewardship.
- Advocates regenerative farming and farmland preservation.
- Opposes cuts to national park funding.

Energy & the Environment

Supports continued aid to Ukraine and a strong NATO alliance.

Supports veterans’ services and opposes cuts to the Veterans Administration Office.

Supports comprehensive immigration reform with fairness and dignity.

- Supports continued aid to Ukraine and a strong NATO alliance.
- Supports veterans’ services and opposes cuts to the Veterans Administration Office.
- Supports comprehensive immigration reform with fairness and dignity.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports campaign finance reforms to reduce "dark money" and the influence of special interests in Washington.

Supports reducing corporate influence in politics and banning congressional stock trading.

- Supports reducing corporate influence in politics and banning congressional stock trading.

Voting & Elections

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Supports tax credits to help families reduce energy costs.

Believes law enforcement and first responders are essential, saying they "deserve to be well trained, well compensated, and have the equipment they need."

Believes law enforcement and first responders should be well trained, compensated, and equipped, and supports hiring more to ensure safety.

Supports increased federal funding to enhance firefighter pay and improve rural fire stations.

Supports better pay and training for law enforcement officers.

Supports "robust" Medicaid and Medicare, including home care, community-based services, and dental and vision coverage for Medicare patients.

Supports expanding rural broadband and cell coverage.

Supports banning Congress members from stock trading.

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- Supports expanding grants and the child tax credit for young families.
- Supports expanding rural broadband and cell coverage to help small farms and shops reach customers worldwide.
- Supports investments and programs to boost economic development, manufacturing, and modern jobs.
- Supports reducing bureaucratic hurdles and increasing loans and grants for small businesses.
- Supports programs for first-time home buyers and public service employees, including teachers, firefighters, and first responders.
- Supports tax code reform to ensure higher earners pay more and advocates eliminating taxes on tips.
- Supports banning Congress members from stock trading.
- Plans to make government institutions more "customer focused, nimble, and an efficient use of taxpayer dollars."

Supports veterans’ services and opposes cuts to the VA.

- Supports continued aid to Ukraine and a strong NATO alliance.
- Supports veterans’ services and opposes cuts to the VA.
- Supports comprehensive immigration reform with fairness and dignity.

- Your U.S. representative represents the interests of your district in the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. North Carolina currently has 14 U.S. representatives.
- U.S. representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become federal law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain areas of policy, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the speaker of the house or majority/minority leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms and there are no term limits. U.S. representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.
-  Representatives must be at least 25 years old, a United States citizen for seven years, and an inhabitant of the state from which he or she is elected. 