Critics said NC’s historic tax reforms would cause budget shortfalls and not help the state’s economy They were proven wrong on both counts The state experienced five ... Keep Reading
jobs
More than a third of corporate welfare deals don’t generate a single new job
From WRAL comes this unsurprising report: More than a third of the incentive projects announced under North Carolina's largest economic development programs in the last decade ... Keep Reading
Debunking Those Medicaid Jobs Claims (Again)
Progressives at NC Policy Watch and WRAL.com are touting the release of a study that claims Medicaid expansion in North Carolina would "create" more than 37,000 jobs in the next ... Keep Reading
Cooper would be wrong to reverse corporate tax cuts
Cooper is likely to call for an increase of NC’s corporate tax Corporate taxes, however, harm workers though job loss and declining wages State legislators should work toward ... Keep Reading
NC Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall
Last week the North Carolina Department of Commerce released October unemployment figures. The national seasonally adjusted rate remained unchanged at 3.7 percent. Meanwhile, North ... Keep Reading
NC unemployment rate continues to fall
North Carolina’s September unemployment rate declined one-tenth of a percentage point from August to 3.8 percent, according to a news release from the North Carolina Department of ... Keep Reading
NC’s unemployment rate declines to 4.4 percent
Earlier today North Carolina’s April employment figures were released. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 4.4 percent, down .1 of a percentage point ... Keep Reading
‘Educating the Whole Person’ for the ‘Whole World’
Over at the Acton Institute, Winston Brady published a piece titled "What would John Dewey do about automation?" Brady is a curriculum adviser and humanities instructor at Thales ... Keep Reading
Left and Right Agree: Corporate Welfare Programs Failing
WRAL.com today has an interesting feature article examining the recent track record of North Carolina's corporate welfare programs. Spoiler alert: the results are not pretty. In ... Keep Reading
More Negative Impacts of Minimum Wage
Seattle has been increasing its minimum wage over these last couple of years, and the results have thus far been predictable (at least by those that understand economics). ... Keep Reading
