President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 @ 4:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week Gov. Roy Cooper will help launch the State Reentry Council Collaborative, an effort to help formerly incarcerated people successfully return to the community and become productive contributors to society
Published: Saturday, October 14th, 2017 @ 5:08 pm
By: Governor's Office
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One of the Administration's top priorities is providing more Americans the opportunity to obtain relevant education and skills that lead to a good job.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2017 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tasha Rodriguez has been named principal of the East Carolina University Laboratory School, which will open this fall at South Greenville Elementary School
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2017 @ 4:33 am
By: ECU News Services
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U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angus King (I-ME) and Congressmen Andy Harris (R-MD-01) and Bill Keating (D-MA-09) have led a bipartisan, bicameral group of 87 Members of Congress in sending a letter to the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Labor urging them to take immediate action
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2017 @ 2:14 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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State Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, characterized North Carolinians' right to work as a freedom so cherished that it was vital to strengthen it from a state law to inclusion in the state constitution
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2017 @ 1:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's labor market ended 2016 on a strong note. Total employment in the state hit 4,360,200 jobs in December, up two percent from the December 2015 figure
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University is one of eight UNC system schools identified to create and operate a laboratory school to help under-achieving elementary students perform better.
Published: Thursday, November 10th, 2016 @ 5:15 am
By: ECU News Services
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There is ample proof that segments of the FBI did as they were told by either Obama's utterly corrupt administration, or his corrupt, bordering criminal DOJ, rather than execute a proper investigation.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2016 @ 2:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker, a Democrat, says if he is elected state labor commissioner he would pursue businesses committing safety, wage, and benefit violations aggressively, filing lawsuits if he must
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I do not have a holiday tradition for Labor Day. I have never really thought much about it as anything other than just another day off work or School.
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2016 @ 7:51 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Governor Pat McCrory announced a new agreement signed today between the North Carolina Industrial Commission and the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) that focuses on protecting the rights of workers and lawful businesses
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 @ 2:01 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released the following statement on the May jobs report...
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 1:20 pm
By: Chris Downey
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As professional activists prepare for another Moral Monday protest at the General Assembly, the North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today called on Roy Cooper to denounce Moral Mondays and the tactics used by their activists to push for their pro-union agenda.
Published: Sunday, May 22nd, 2016 @ 3:05 pm
By: Chris Downey
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"North Carolina added more than 34,000 to the ranks of the employed from February to March, but the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5% - in part because the labor force also increased...
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 @ 8:56 am
By: Chris Downey
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For the last several years, Big Labor has pushed for mandated higher pay for workers, rallying around the slogan "Fight for Fifteen!"
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2016 @ 1:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The March 15 primary will decide which Democrat — former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker or Greensboro attorney and activist Mazie Ferguson — will face incumbent Republican Cherie Berry this fall in the race for commissioner of labor
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressive critics of North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reforms are quick to seize on topline unemployment rate figures in an attempt to discredit the rate cuts. But a closer look shows that in fact our state has enjoyed stellar job growth since taxes were cut.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina is a top 10 state for job creation in 2015, according to analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by Professor Lee McPheters at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:32 am
By: Chris Downey
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), along with a group of 25 other Senators, sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL), expressing concern and frustration over the Department's H-2B labor certification process. The bipartisan letter explains the complications employers with H-2B workers face...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 8:07 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Governor Pat McCrory visited UNC Charlotte today to discuss the$2 billion Connect NC bond package that will invest in education, parks, National Guard facilities and water and sewer infrastructure across the state. Of that amount, nearly $135 million of investments included in the Connect NC...
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 12:03 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In 49 states it is legal for an employer to pay an employee below minimum wage because the worker is disabled
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 9:44 am
By: Sabe Wilis
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While North Carolina's unemployment rate currently stands at just under 6 percent, some argue that problems in the state's labor market are worse than that one statistic would indicate.
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2015 @ 2:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, September 11, the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom joined several other state-based legal and policy organizations in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the freedom of employees to choose what political causes they support. In a joint amicus brief in the case of...
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 11:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory said learning about art is critical to developing the critical thinking skills that will help students compete in the marketplace as well as enhancing their next visit to a museum or gallery.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 11:54 am
By: McCrory Communications
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As competition for investment and talent increases worldwide, North Carolina has developed a comprehensive branding initiative to promote the state's assets, unify communications and help attract business and visitors.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 7:46 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The answer is obvious. It's a minimum wage increase that prices competition out of the market while exempting companies with a unionized work force.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an interview published on the Capital and Main website, former U.S. Labor Secretary and University of California at Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich opined that, despite the importance of their jobs, teachers are underpaid compared to supposedly less important professionals.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, North Carolina added some 11,000 jobs in April and nearly 107,000 jobs over the 12-month period. That's a annual growth rate in payroll employment of 2.6 percent, which exceeds the national and Southeastern averages (each 2.2 percent).
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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