The Tar Heel State ranks 13th in a new index of how well the 50 states provide different educational options for parents in 2026. Released Jan. 21 by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the results show that North Carolina dipped slightly from its 2025 ranking when the state placed 12th overall, but its score was still enough...
The 17th edition of the annual rankings placed the Tar Heel State as having the fourth best economic outlook among the 50 states, after turning in the eleventh ranked economic performance.
State Treasurer Dale Folwell is drawing attention to North Carolina’s No. 2 ranking in a new assessment of states’ economic outlook. The Tar Heel State trails only Utah in the ranking from the American Legislative Exchange Council. “This is tremendous news for North Carolina,” Folwell said in a news release. “I applaud the General Assembly...
The 2021 governors’ report was released by the free-market-focused American Legislative Exchange Council in late March, and many conservatives were surprised that Democratic N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper received a better-than-average rating on his performance. Cooper had the fourth-best ranking for a Democrat and was 22nd overall among the 50 state governors. But analysts, including ALEC’s...
Things are quiet this week on Jones Street in Raleigh, even as work on a state budget plan, which the governor may or may not sign, looms in the legislature. The N.C. Senate on June 25 approved its budget proposal, supported by all Republicans and a handful of Democrats. The House, though, probably won’t take...
North Carolina is among the top five states in the nation on metrics such as tax rates, size of state government, and income transfer programs, according to a new report from the American Legislative Exchange Council. Only four states — Utah, Florida, Oklahoma, and Wyoming — came in ahead of North Carolina on ALEC’s economic...
North Carolina was seventh-best among states for its economic outlook, says the 2018 edition of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Rich States, Poor States. ALEC, a nonpartisan membership organization of state legislators, has ranked states on economic outlook and performance for 11 years. Due to what ALEC calls a record of substantive pro-growth tax cuts,...
Spokesmen for North Carolina Republican U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr condemned Senate Democrats’ attacks on the John Locke Foundation, Carolina Journal, and 47 other organizations that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., accused of concocting a “Web of Denial” through research and reporting that creates a skeptical view of climate change alarmism. In an orchestrated...
North Carolina was lauded for “impressive reforms” curtailing its regulatory burdens on businesses and individuals, and national policy analysts discussed methods of further reducing costly restrictions during a June 22 teleconference call. “North Carolina has been a model for a lot of things,” said Patrick Gleason, director of state affairs at Americans for Tax Reform....
RALEIGH — Eileen Norcross, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, authored the center’s annual Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition, pulling 2013 data, the most recent available, from the 50 states’ Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. Those are the states’ official, audited financial statements. The research looked at each state’s short- and long-term debt, other major fiscal considerations, unfunded pensions, and health care benefits.
RALEIGH — North Carolina ranks No. 4 among the 50 states in economic competitiveness, thanks largely to the sweeping tax reform package approved two years ago. That’s the assessment from “Rich States, Poor States,” a publication of the American Legislative Exchange Council. An ALEC leader discussed the report Monday with the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
