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AFP: “November is Coming”
Americans for Prosperity bus tour concludes tonight with a final stop in Henderson, North Carolina. The nine-stop tour welcomed hundreds of people concerned about jobs, the ... Keep Reading
“Saving” Jobs Means Destroying Wealth
State Representative Pryor Gibson (D-Anson) a couple of years ago declared that it was in the state's best economic interest to "save" jobs, "even if they're making buggy whips." ... Keep Reading
Class Envy Rhetoric Hurts the Poor
Gene Nichol, a professor of law at the UNC School of Law, and director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity continues the N&O's promotion of economic ... Keep Reading
State Government is a Jobs Machine
Governor Perdue claims that “we are a jobs machine” here in North Carolina. She must have meant to say that our state government is a jobs machine. In this year’s budget, in ... Keep Reading
JWPCI newspaper – July 2010: Budget Edition
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Gov’t Stimulus Boosts Gov’t Power at Everyone Else’s Expense
Today's Greensboro News & Record included my letter to the editor discussing government stimulus schemes: A recent editorial discussing the federal government’s stimulus funds ... Keep Reading
State Government workers’ union fighting privitization of IT jobs
Governor Perdue is pursuing the idea of asking private companies to run some of the information technology infrastructure to save money. But the State Employees Association of ... Keep Reading
Want to Prolong the Recession?
Simply continue to pay people not to work. So the federal government is going to spend money it doesn't have to give to people for doing nothing. How exactly does that encourage ... Keep Reading
A Closer Look at Today’s Job Numbers
The NC Employment Security Commission released today updated job numbers reflecting labor data for June. The headlines tout the good news about the unemployment rate dropping from ... Keep Reading
