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Treasury Secretary Yellen spotlights IRA impact in Raleigh

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was in North Carolina Thursday, visiting Wake Tech Community College to highlight what the Biden-Harris administration sees as the positive impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Sold, as its title suggests, as a means to lower inflation pressures on American producers and consumers, the IRA is now embraced as the most far-reaching climate legislation in US history.

Jeff Moore

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Let a thousand billboards bloom

Put me down as entirely unsurprised that media companies are adding commercials back into their streaming services as a means of making them profitable. Advertising has never been as unpopular as its critics imagine — a truth that North Carolina policymakers should embrace as they try to finance new infrastructure without irritating taxpayers. I admit...

John Hood
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Harris courts unions, a red flag for Right-to-Work advocates

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are blitzing northern union states this Labor Day, courting union voters who may be wavering in their support of the Democratic ticket. President Joe Biden joined the pair for an appearance in Pennsylvania Monday morning. It is his first since being replaced at...

CJ Staff