Opinion
Disability Model Isn’t Working
You can’t make the economy healthier by paying a growing share of the population not to work.
Opinion
Work Is What Works
Politicians don’t lead their communities to prosperity by making it easier for people who lose jobs to remain on public assistance in perpetuity.
News
Report: New Model Needed for Disability
RALEIGH — State and federal programs directed at the disabled are costly and ineffective because they apply an “entitlement mentality” to problems that would be better addressed by promoting investment in job skills and self reliance, according to a new report released by the John Locke Foundation. Author John Hood observed that while most persons living with disabilities today have “an unprecedented quality of life,” largely as a product of medical and technological advances, they are also experiencing some “surprisingly negative” trends. For example, a smaller share of the disabled have jobs today than was true before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was supposed to pry open the doors of economic opportunity.
News
County-Subsidized Arena Falls Short
CHARLOTTE — In the 1990s, Cumberland County joined many other communities in building a new sports and entertainment arena. While the Crown Coliseum is a state-of-the-art facility, one thing has been lacking: enough events drawing enough people for the building to break even. Through August, the county spent $748,471 on management and licensing agreements and has recovered only $201,209 from events. In other local stories of statewide interest: making firehouses accessible to disabed firefighters and merging the Triangle's transit systems.
