
|
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.1% in August after remaining constant in July according to the latest release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. On an annual basis, prices have increased 8.3%. This number would have been markedly higher if not for declining gas prices.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 11:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Americans facing largest national debt ever, just as Biden announces student loan forgiveness
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 12:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
According to the latest press release from the Governor’s press office, Governor Roy Cooper pledged $1.2 million in taxpayer dollars to a battery company for their expansion.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
The Small Business Administration and Department of Treasury distributed $800 billion of emergency funding via the newly created Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to save businesses from permanent closure during the Covid pandemic.
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2022 @ 1:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Troubling economic news continues to pile up.
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2022 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Yet 2.6 million more people would need to enter the labor force to match pre-pandemic labor force rates
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 5:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Despite sky-high inflation, fears over energy costs and the possibility of stagflation, Pres. Biden says the country is on the economic rebound
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 10:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan sends powerful but dangerous messages
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
According to the latest release from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, unemployment rates decreased in all 100 of North Carolina’s counties in July.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 8:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
State visitor spending in 2021 would have needed to be another $2 billion higher to break even with the 2019 record
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 2:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Two Chatham County communities will soon be without twenty-seven homes, five businesses, and one church because the state of North Carolina is exercising its eminent domain powers to make way for VinFast, a startup Vietnamese auto company.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
North Carolina’s July unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.4% for the fourth consecutive month according to the latest release from the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The national rate decreased by 0.1% to 3.5%.
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Reports indicate that consumer spending is on the downturn, and the latest Civitas Poll shows Americans increasingly worried about their jobs
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 8:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the “Inflation Reduction Act” into law. So how will North Carolinians be affected by the large, multi-faceted bill?
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 6:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Several Republican state attorneys general informed asset manager BlackRock last week that its shareholder activism efforts “may violate multiple state laws.”
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2022 @ 2:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
|
The U.S. House and Senate voted along party lines to pass the latest tax and spend bill, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” (IRA) sending it to President Biden’s desk. Yesterday, with Biden’s signature, the bill became law.
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2022 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
As tax reform heats up across the country, high-tax states should take notice
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2022 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|