Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation director of communications, responds to a report that claims higher education generates a multibillion-dollar economic impact for North Carolina. Kokai offered these comments during the Feb. 18, 2015, edition of Time Warner Cable News’ “Capital Tonight.”
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