Dick Carpenter, director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice, discusses key themes from the book Bottleneckers. Carpenter offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
Carolina economy solid, not spectacular
How has North Carolina’s economy been performing lately? Let’s focus on four standard measures: unemployment, jobs, incomes, and gross domestic product. Last week, the US Census Bureau released its latest jobs report. It’s based on two surveys. The household survey polls hundreds of North Carolinians and generates, among other statistics, the unemployment rate. The establishment...