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bringing culturally foreign, economically dependent foreigners to US is a problem
Published: Monday, September 8th, 2025 @ 10:19 am
By: John Steed
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In 2013, the new General Assembly held the sales tax at 4.75%, while expanding the base. Consumption-based taxes like the sales tax are more stable and less economically destructive than income taxes which discourage savings and investment.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite happy talk from the Biden administration, the country remains economically weak
Published: Monday, February 27th, 2023 @ 11:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservative legislators in North Carolina have notably improved our state’s tax code over the past dozen years. Significant tax cuts and reforms have enabled NC to outcompete most other states economically and make it far more attractive for job creation and investment.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2023 @ 8:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each year, the Golden LEAF Scholarship is awarded to 215 students who reside in a qualifying rural and economically distressed North Carolina County.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 11:34 pm
By: ENC NOW
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For the second time in as many months, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a press briefing that the U.S. is now at a stronger point economically than it has been “in history.”
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2022 @ 10:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Golden LEAF’s mission is to increase economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural, tobacco-dependent, and economically distressed communities through leadership in grantmaking, collaboration, innovation, and stewardship as an independent and perpetual foundation.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 12:47 pm
By: ENC NOW
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More Americans say they are “suffering” economically in 2022 than in 2008, according to a new survey.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In this article, we have chosen several useful skills in our opinion. These skills can be used not only during the working time but in your private life. They can make your life easier when you achieve them.
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 @ 12:21 pm
By: John Smith
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Russian stocks drop 98% on London exchange
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Steed
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In what will come as a surprise only to economically-challenged progressives, a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the enhanced federal unemployment benefits last year slowed the return to work.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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SITE Program During the strategic planning process, the Golden LEAF Board identified gaps in available funding to support site development necessary to attract businesses, especially to rural and economically distressed areas.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 8:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The healthcare industry remains a major economic driver in rural, tobacco-dependent, and economically distressed communities. The Golden LEAF Foundation supports the healthcare industry by funding projects that directly lead to the creation of new jobs and increased access to healthcare services.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 9:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Andy Puzder explains at FoxNews.com why Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s climate policy would prove disastrous for the American economy.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 12:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation on Wednesday that would move most federal agencies out of Washington, D.C. and into a variety of regions throughout the United States that have been deemed economically distressed.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 7:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With a headline unemployment rate of 4 percent and a healthy 2.8 percent jump in inflation-adjusted median household income last year, North Carolinians are better off economically than they have been in many years.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 1:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Better internet access is coming to 19 rural, economically disadvantaged counties in North Carolina thanks to nearly $10 million in grants, Governor Roy Cooper announced today along with the NC Department of Information Technology and its Broadband Infrastructure Office.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 6:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina today won a grant of $23 million to replace dozens of bridges in 17 of the state's most economically distressed counties
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2018 @ 8:14 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at the Golden LEAF Retreat Center in Rocky Mount
Published: Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 @ 11:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, August 3, 2017 at the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel in the Lexington Conference Room in Winston-Salem
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 3:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at the Golden LEAF Retreat Center in Rocky Mount
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 1:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Golden LEAF Retreat Center in Rocky Mount.
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2017 @ 2:30 am
By: T. J. Jordan
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at the Hyatt Place Raleigh-Durham Airport Hotel in the RDU Airport Conference Room in Morrisvi
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2017 @ 10:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Both Google and Facebook have had pop up reminders on my first sign in asking me if I am registered to vote. These popped up on my page without me searching on clicking on anything.
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 8:02 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will enable East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine to offer more scholarships to economically disadvantaged students over the next four years.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2016 @ 11:39 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Rocky Mount
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 @ 5:30 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 7:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's public university system is a multi-billion-dollar organization that impacts virtually every region of North Carolina-socially and economically
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 6:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Despite earlier claims by Iberdrola Renewables officials that the $400 million, 300-megawatt Amazon Wind Farm that will cover 22 acres near Elizabeth City would be built totally from company funds, another Iberdrola official says the project requires some tax incentives to be viable economically.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When seventh-grade science teacher and East Carolina University alumnus Tim Hardison learned his fellow Martin County residents had the shortest life expectancy in the state, he wanted to know why. So he dug a little deeper and discovered his rural, economically challenged county also had...
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 12:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at the Golden LEAF Retreat Center in Rocky Mount.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2015 @ 10:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the video clip below, being touted by the McCrory for Governor campaign, Governor Pat McCrory tells business leaders at the NC Chamber of Commerce that the way to keep North Carolina "moving forward" economically is to pass the North Carolina Competes legislation - basically an expansion of...
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at The Duke Endowment in the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Conference Center in Charlotte, NC.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 @ 7:37 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointment to the Golden L.E.A.F. Board today...
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should "encourage an economical use of the state's resources" to further the state's constitutional mission of providing public higher education.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, October 2, 2014
Published: Friday, September 26th, 2014 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should "encourage an economical use of the state's resources" to further the state's constitutional mission of providing public higher education.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, August 7, 2014 at the Western NC Agricultural Center in Fletcher.
Published: Saturday, August 2nd, 2014 @ 10:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is taking action to modernize the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in order to prevent the waste of taxpayer money and implementation of unnecessary, economically harmful regulations.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 10:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A grant of nearly $500,000 will help East Carolina University recruit and teach school librarians from economically disadvantaged and historically underrepresented backgrounds who want to live and work in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 3:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger and Speaker Thom Tillis applauded Gov. Pat McCrory and Transportation Secretary Tony Tata for their leadership and joined their call for the Southern Environmental Law Center to stop obstructing construction of the economically vital new Bonner Bridge.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 7:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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