A decade ago, North Carolina was on a trajectory to look more like New York or Illinois. We were economically stagnant with one of the worst business climates in the nation.
“If Catherine Truitt seeks to be seen as the state’s education leader, the route isn’t via reflexive partisan fealty,” the WRAL-TV editorialist snarled.
Politicians who assert the magic of multiplier effects to justify their pet programs may be dissembling. But it is my experience that most of the time, they don’t know enough about the matter to be lying.
Title IX isn’t about discrimination based on gender. Title IX protects individuals from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. Title IX states simply that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be…
Even at low interest rates, borrowing is costlier than paying cash. And the governor proposes to put his $4.6 billion debt spree on the ballot in an off-year, low-turnout election.
The EITC reduces market wages, leads people to work fewer hours, is costly to administer, and is so complex that it makes excess payments to some taxpayers while keeping others from getting their full benefits.
A properly constructed poverty measure based on living standards show that the poverty rate fell from 16.8% in 1972 to 2.8% in 2018.
Running a small business isn’t easy in the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times. Social distancing and concerns over spreading COVID-19 forced many small businesses to try to connect with customers online rather than in person, but here’s the catch: Some businesses can’t easily do that.
Kelo v. City of New London is one of the worst modern U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The 2005 high court case may not mean a lot to non-lawyers or to those not in a public policy field, but the 5-4 decision allowed for private property to be seized and transferred…
Programs like Medicare and Medicaid sold as making health care more “affordable” may dramatically lower the price of health care to enrollees, but very well may increase the costs to society of delivering care.
