Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation director of health and fiscal policy studies, explains that corporate welfare does nothing to help address North Carolina’s unemployment rate, which climbed to 9.7 percent in November.
JLF’s Joseph Coletti discusses the impact of corporate welfare on N.C. employment
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