Civitas has been busy looking for ways to cut the budget, and last week we asked you for your suggestions. Here's some of what we received. Require immediate 5% reduction in ... Keep Reading
The Shoe Fits, Now Wear It
The late Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman once famously observed: “Nobody spends someone else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s ... Keep Reading
Creating Jobs a Risky Business
In the recently completed election season, every candidate promised to be the one to trust to "create jobs." Indeed, in spite of some pretty heated rhetoric, jobs remained the ... Keep Reading
Ranking North Carolina’s 21st Century Job Growth
North Carolina’s Private Sector Job Losses Among Worst in U.S Since 2000; Adds Third Highest Number of State Government Workers in the Nation North Carolina’s private ... Keep Reading
Corporate Welfare Undermines Economy
State politicians, ranging from Gov. Beverly Perdue to U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan, descended on the Research Triangle Park recently to help celebrate an economic ... Keep Reading
Number of Unemployed in North Carolina Tripled Since 2000
Over the last decade, the number of North Carolinians in the unemployment line almost tripled, increasing by nearly 300,000. At the same time, the state was a net loser of ... Keep Reading
The Myth of Under-Funded Public Schools in Poor Counties
Do public schools in North Carolina’s wealthy counties enjoy a funding advantage over the state’s poorer counties? The conventional wisdom among education ... Keep Reading
Report Card on County Government Growth
From 2000 to 2009, 72 of North Carolina’s 100 county governments grew their workforce at a faster pace than their respective private sector employment. Furthermore, 59 ... Keep Reading
NC State Employees’ Pay More than Private? – Brian Balfour on Bill Lumaye
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State plan for tax breaks betrays N C consumers
This article first appeared in the Durham Herald Sun. With a stroke of her pen last week, Gov. Perdue advanced the power held by the political class over the average North ... Keep Reading
