Not enough preparedness and no timeline.
Those were the key factors that the North Carolina House Oversight and Reform Committee heard from officials from the N.C. Department of Commerce’s Division of Employment Security (DES) and State Auditor Beth Wood about an audit Wood’s office did from January 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021, on untimely and improper first-time unemployment benefit payments.
The SAVE Act, (House Bill 218/Senate Bill 175) filed in the state legislature would allow nurses to practice up to their level of certification, with “full practice authority.” More than 25 other states have already passed similar legislation.
A new working paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that the link between Medicaid expansion and improved rates of adult mortality is not as clear as previous research has suggested.
With more than half of American workers still able to work from home, the post-pandemic work world is likely changed for good. Approximately 58% of Americans have the option of working from home at least one day a week, and more employees are turning to that policy to keep their staff happier in their jobs. A recent study suggests that it might be a win-win.
The Biden administration is trying to get ahead of what economists expect to be another negative reading for Gross Domestic Product on July 28.
See Editor’s Note at end of story. Alicia Moran is a junior at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, studying to get her bachelor’s degree in communications disorders. She wants to return to her home state of North Carolina to work, but the licensing scheme here may keep her away. In North Carolina, a licensed...
Occupational licensing rules may be keeping people from moving across state lines and toward job opportunities, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests. University of Minnesota professors Janna E. Johnson and Morris M. Kleiner published a study linking state-specific licensing to reduced migration rates of people with jobs requiring licensing. The...
RALEIGH — A survey of nearly 900 academic studies from the past quarter-century shows North Carolina has been moving in the right direction on education reform in recent years. That’s a key conclusion from a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
RALEIGH — A recent study suggests that taxpayer costs could go down if the states expanded Medicaid enrollment under President Obama’s signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But critics say expanding Medicaid actually would cost North Carolinians directly an extra $3.1 billion more over a 10-year period — and costs to federal taxpayers, including North Carolinians, would be even greater.
CHARLOTTE — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools operates on a neighbhorhood-schools model. But families can choose to send their children to other public schools if they enter a lottery to do so. The study shows low-income students placed by a lottery benefited from added choices.
RALEIGH — In the paper by economists Robert Novy-Mark and Joshua Rauh, North Carolina’s $764 per year ranks 40th nationally in the tax increases per household needed to satisfy pension promises — below neighboring Tennessee ($792), Virginia ($991), and South Carolina ($1,216).
