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The labor market lost considerable momentum last year, with only 584,000 jobs added, averaging 49,000 positions per month.
Published: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 2:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Center Square: North Carolina has an unemployment of 3.7% for September, lower than the national average of 4.4%.
Published: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 3:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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rererse of Biden years where all jobs gains were for foreign born workers
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 @ 12:57 pm
By: John Steed
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inflated numbers do not tell the true story
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2024 @ 8:24 pm
By: John Steed
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Stocks slid after officials at the Federal Reserve announced a 0.25% increase in the target federal funds rate on Wednesday, continuing a slowdown from previous rate hikes meant to combat inflation and marking caution from policymakers given recent tumult in the banking sector.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 4:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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The unemployment rate increased to 3.7% in August 2022 even as more Americans returned to work, according to a Friday release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 10:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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Press Secertary Karine Jean-Pierre and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby Answer Questions
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 11:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A meager 30% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s economic performance — a level far lower than the worst reading under his recent predecessors, according to a new poll released Monday.
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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Jared Bernstein, a member of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, on Sunday deflected on whether the United States is bound for a recession.
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 3:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 30,000 on Thursday for the first time since January 2021 amid dismal inflation news and an aggressive interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 @ 7:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it would hike interest rates by 0.75% — the boldest action since 1994.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 @ 12:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller warned on Saturday that efforts from the central bank to tackle inflation would produce higher unemployment.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 1:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s unemployment rate decreased to 3.9% in January, a 0.2 percentage point change from the revised, December rate according to today’s release from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2022 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that a record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, the highest level in over 20 years.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 3:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The economy added 49,000 jobs in January after losing 227,000 jobs in December.
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2021 @ 4:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After getting many political predictions wrong in 2016, including but not limited to the results of the presidential election, I threw my long-cherished crystal ball out and started building a new one.
Published: Friday, January 1st, 2021 @ 5:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. unemployment rate shocked economists on Wall Street, dropping to 13.3% for the month of May.
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2020 @ 9:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s economic and fiscal health is riding a decade of success.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 9:35 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Tech entrepreneur is (still) running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for the presidency — here's where he departs from his colleagues
Published: Monday, December 23rd, 2019 @ 7:25 pm
By: LifeZette
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Remarks by President Trump at the 3rd Annual Made in America Product Showcase
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 2:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The stellar April jobs report further demonstrates how President Donald J. Trump is delivering results to American workers from nearly every demographic across the country.
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2019 @ 5:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm honored to be here with many of the great American workers as we take historic action to accelerate the incredible revival of American manufacturing.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 @ 8:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Pat McCrory will likely run for reelection next year as governor of North Carolina against longtime Attorney General Roy Cooper.
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2015 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report on December 19, most North Carolina politicians, journalists, economists, and policy analysts immediately zeroed in on the state's recent performance.
Published: Wednesday, December 31st, 2014 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor McCrory delivered a press conference where he outlined many of the state's initiatives and what he plans to oversee through his cabinet during the 2014 legislative year and into 2015.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 3:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Affluent North Carolina residents who put solar panels on their rooftops are being subsidized by lower-income customers because of the state's renewable energy subsidies and regulations, the president of Duke Energy North Carolina told a legislative panel Tuesday.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That's one way to interpret the current trend of the Index of North Carolina Leading Economic Indicators. Produced every month by N.C. State University economist Michael Walden, the index combines five indicators that tend to correlate with economic growth over time: initial unemployment-insurance c
Published: Friday, August 16th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday, Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation that declines Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Much of the press coverage once again repeated two key claims about the decision: that it leaves some 500,000 uninsured North Carolinians out in the cold, and that it rejects billions...
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 3:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The nation's unemployment rate rose slightly in July, to a seasonally adjusted 8.3 percent, even though the employment survey showed the largest seasonally adjusted job gain in five months.
Published: Saturday, August 4th, 2012 @ 10:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's unemployment rate fell in April by three-tenths of a point, to 9.4 percent. Good news? Not really.
Published: Thursday, May 24th, 2012 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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