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In the last year, there has been a push in North Carolina, on par with a national trend, to increase education related to trades-focused careers, with national funding allocated to trade programs.
Published: Thursday, January 29th, 2026 @ 1:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Heritage Foundation-linked group is suing the CIA over records of its investigation into COVID-19 after a whistleblower said analysts were paid to change their conclusions.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 12:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Thousands of American auto dealers are pushing President Joe Biden to scrap his electric vehicle mandate because consumers are not warming up to buying EVs for various reasons.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 @ 12:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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One of the nation’s oldest and largest insurance companies had its incentives package terminated by the North Carolina Economic Investment Committee Tuesday for failing to add thousands of jobs to its operations center in Charlotte.
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 9:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) slammed President Joe Biden over the weekend for the renewed explosion of illegal immigration on the U.S. southern border
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 5:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Latest Example Further Demonstrates the Folly of Government Corporate Welfare
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 7:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fayetteville native Brian Tyree Henry was among those nominated for an Oscar in this year’s 95th Annual Academy Awards. He was recognized for his role as James in the film “Causeway.”
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 9:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina continues to make headlines for its economic development incentives
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 11:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ongoing trend continues of companies not living up to their economic promises to North Carolina despite JDIG incentives.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to effectively implement the incentives for semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing provided by division A of H.R. 4346 (the “Act”), it is hereby ordered
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2022 @ 11:03 am
By: ENC NOW
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The House of Representatives passed the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act on Thursday, despite opposition from Republicans who argued that the bill would funnel billions in taxpayer money toward corporations.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 11:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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32 companies received JDIG incentives in 2021, most of which will last 12 years, totally $1.2 billion taxpayer dollars.
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2022 @ 4:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Economic development incentives divert taxpayer money to politically favored companies at the expense of the rest of the state
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are two reasons a corporation would take government incentives to move into North Carolina:
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 8:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Vietnamese automaker has announced plans to build a $4 billion electric-vehicle assembly and battery-manufacturing plant at Triangle Innovation Point in Moncure, about 30 miles west of the Triangle.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 5:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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My previous research brief discussed that last year Gov. Roy Cooper pledged over $1.3 billion in corporate welfare to just 58 corporations from state “economic development” incentives programs whose stated purposes are about “job creation.”
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If your business model requires ongoing subsidies and incentives, your business isn’t selling a product, it’s having to lobby nonstop. ZeroHedge reports on a major new threat to the rooftop solar business in California.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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So far this year, Gov. Cooper has pledged over $930.7 million in tax incentives to just 22 corporations, including $845.8 million over four decades to Apple
Published: Friday, December 3rd, 2021 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $25 Summer Card pilot program operated by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) was successful in encouraging COVID-19 vaccination.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 10:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner documents disappointing bipartisan support for a bad idea: state film and television incentives.
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the weekend, a reporter asked me to comment on Senate Bill 493.
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When it comes to giving out business incentives, you won’t find North Carolina at the top of the list.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 8:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes has examined job creation promises from North Carolina economic-development incentives programs and found them falling far, far short.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 4:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you've been given the task to argue that an industry needs government support to survive. How do you think you'd make that case?
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Credit to Gov. Roy Cooper for finding a way to finagle what should fundamentally be an issue about fairness for his advantage.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 5:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina taxpayers are paying Merck, the $210 billion dollar pharmaceutical company that produces Viagra, among other drugs, some $12.5 million in tax incentives to build in Durham.
Published: Monday, July 29th, 2019 @ 6:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sometimes, when trying to explain how a political issue is a thorny mess, I've used the phrase "public-choice problem." Recent examples include such issues as occupational licensing, film incentives, government favoritism for renewable energy, even funeral regulations.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 11:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The economic costs of corporate tax incentives outweigh their benefits, a new study by N.C. State University researchers says.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 5:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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No big announcement. No contentious public meetings. No press conference. But most important — no economic incentives.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 4:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We're fighting to give every American-all over the country, every single American-a future of dignity and purpose and of pride.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2019 @ 12:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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States and municipalities courting of large corporations such as Amazon and Apple has brought the folly of economic development tax incentives into the public awareness
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 7:52 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Was Apple's choice of Austin, Texas, over the Research Triangle for its new, $1 billion campus a win or a loss for North Carolina
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2018 @ 4:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Bill 820, which skyrockets tax incentives for “big boys with deep pockets,” rampaged through the North Carolina General Assembly last week like a General Patton simile
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2018 @ 1:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Apple surprised the business world Thursday with an announcement it was investing $1 billion in a new campus in Austin, Texas. The announcement also included news of new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, California, and expansions in Pittsburgh, New York, and Boulder, Colorado.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 4:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a safe bet that state Rep. Jonathan Jordan agrees with Republican colleagues Bill Brawley, Susan Martin, and Scott Stone much more often than he agrees with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming New York congresswoman and newly elevated champion of the political left
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When are special interest subsidies not just special interest subsidies?
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Carolina Journal reports that while the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte would gain international attention and could boost the city's profile in intangible ways, it's unlikely it would "provide a major economic boost to the city."
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2018 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina politicians and policy analysts have been arguing for decades about targeted economic incentives
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine you are a middle school student called on stage in front of 75 of your friends and peers
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Try as I might, I can't see the wisdom behind this proposed "transformative" projects expansion. I can't. It's terrible
Published: Thursday, May 24th, 2018 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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