John Hood on exiting extended federal unemployment benefit program; Terry Stoops & legislators on replacing Common Core; lawmakers on requiring moped insurance; Garland Pierce & Milton McCoy on role of fathers; Katherine Restrepo on Obamacare subsidies
It is entirely legitimate to disagree about why North Carolina’s labor market has improved so dramatically over the past year.
Terry Stoops on NC's teacher hiring problem; Joe Stewart & Matt Bales on NC's Senate race; legislators debate job-search rules for unemployment recipients; legislators look at changes to pension investments; George Leef on union power & the Supreme Court
Seattle’s vote to set a government-mandated minimum wage of $15 hurts those most in need of jobs.
Is North Carolina’s dramatic decline in unemployment a statistical quirk that reflects a growing number of discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force?
Terry Stoops on Read to Achieve; state officials on effort to pay down federal unemployment debt; legislators on replacing privilege license tax; Revenue Dept. COO on scrapping TIMS project; Tyler Younts on N.C. law that hurts some property owners
Since mid-2011, total compensation for North Carolina workers had grown by an average annual rate of 3.7 percent, faster than the regional and national averages.
John Hood on unemployment stats; Terry Stoops, Jerry Tillman and June Atkinson on Common Core; Jay Schalin on scant reform scrutiny for higher ed; Gene Chianelli on N.C.'s historic tax reform; Roy Cordato on protecting freedom with local policies
Jeanette Doran on a website devoted to analyzing lawsuits against N.C.'s election reforms; lawmakers hear about N.C.'s unemployment benefit debt owed to the feds; Tony Almeida on N.C. efforts at job creation; Richard Vedder on reforming higher education; Katherine Restrepo on problems ahead with ObamaCare
Only six states in the country had a larger drop in underemployment than North Carolina did over the past year.
There are 10 states at the forefront of America’s economic recovery. North Carolina is one of them.
