Opinion
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Hide The Evidence
The Obama administration chose an opportune time to release a study that should embarrass backers of the Head Start program.
Opinion
If It’s Broke, Fix It
The governor and General Assembly have been taking steps to fix what ails North Carolina.
Opinion
Obamacare Takes Fiscal Hit
What is needed isn’t just flexibility on the use of Medicaid-expansion funds but also flexibility on products available in the health insurance exchange.
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Crying wolf can become a habit
Opinion
Which Is More Likely to Pay the Bills: Do-Gooder Paternalism Or a Payday Loan?
Critics of payday lending ignore the role the loans play for consumers who have little or no access to better options.
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Obama’s habit
Opinion
Updating NC Job Numbers
North Carolina’s economy added about 106,000 jobs from December 2010 to December 2012, During the previous two years, 2009-2010, North Carolina lost 162,000 jobs.
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Blame guess who.
Opinion
More on Medicaid Crowd-Out
Some people who ought to know better claim that virtually no low-income households have private health insurance. So they deny the risk of crowd-out from Medicaid expansion.
Opinion
Gelles’ “Blueprint for Change” Would Bulk Up Big Government
Richard Gelles observes that once an individual problem receives the imprimatur of a government remedy, the definition of the problem will expand so that the remedy never goes away.
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And the winner is …
Opinion
Time For a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
Almost every state faces a requirement to balance its books. There’s no reason Washington politicians should avoid the same rule.
