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North Carolina leaders today released a new report on the state’s caregiving workforce, announcing the next steps in strengthening this critical group of workers.
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 2:39 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Advocating and driving policies for North Carolina women and families for over half a century
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 7:09 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Per tradition, fabulous rainbows promoting sexual deviance are being painted on the doorposts of office buildings and storefronts as corporations race to appease the woke gangs they hope will pass them by.
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 @ 1:24 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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auto workers union blasts electric vehcile provision in "Inflation Reduction Act"
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 @ 7:43 am
By: John Steed
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US does not even have a wage requirement
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 7:37 am
By: John Steed
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Some argue that minimum wage increases would create more wealth for those with the greatest need in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 @ 11:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first occurs during ages 2-7, with a second one occurring during adolescence. At the start of these periods, the number of connections (synapses) between brain cells (neurons) doubles.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 9:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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We all have witnessed examples of the worker shortage. Signs in business windows that read: “now hiring,” “please be patient, we are short on staff,” and “reduced hours” abound.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s prosperity bewilders some people. Folks on the left struggle to articulate North Carolina’s growing economy that has benefitted dramatically from policies they claim “hurt the state.”
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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leftwing mouthpiece admits fraud of Biden "green economy"
Published: Sunday, July 25th, 2021 @ 8:11 am
By: John Steed
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Gov. Roy Cooper is still selling Medicaid expansion, but Republican lawmakers still aren’t buying.
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 3:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s unemployment rate has dropped from the 10.9 percent 2010 high we experienced following The Great Recession to 4.0 percent in October. But that’s not uniform across the state.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 7:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Among his many exhortations to conservatives is Russell Kirk’s insistence that they be guided by the principle of prudence.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 9:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday that doubles the federally mandated minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 10:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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Last year Senators Angela Bryant (D-Halifax), Valerie Foushee (D-Chatham) and Terry Van Duyn (D-Buncombe) introduced legislation (SB 174) to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour as a way “to advance economic security in North Carolina.”
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 7:24 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Donald Trump had some successes last night, but there is plenty of room to improve.
Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2016 @ 8:18 pm
By: Ryan Case
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The American higher education establishment suffers from the same problem as ruling establishments everywhere-the inability to look objectively at itself
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 4:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The fine article from my friend, Bobby Tony, deserves some observations. In some respects I totally agree. On others I total disagree. Several other need illustrating . . .
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 4:53 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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The plight of the low-wage fast-food worker has been a focus of some political activism lately. The ostensible goal is drumming up support for significantly raising the minimum wage. Sympathy for workers should not, however, lead one into supporting causes that merely seem to address the problem whi
Published: Friday, December 12th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This video speaks of Minimum Wage as a destroyer of the work force.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:15 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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If it were to succeed, the campaign to hike - or worse, double - the minimum wage would have serious negative repercussions for the young, least skilled, and least employable. Previous newsletters have explored in depth this well-known negative policy consequence. It's one of the issues about...
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 7:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I see it in the same light as President Ford tripping on the steps of AF- 1 = brings him down to the "foot-in-mouth" disease of most of us. Those who speak publicly and the audience begins to snicker, immediately start to regret they ever said a word for idiots to criticize.
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from its current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour, a 40 percent increase. A number of dumb arguments have been made both for and against the increase.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's lackluster economy is the top political issue. Voters who pay scant attention to legislative sessions and partisan dust-ups in Raleigh view state leaders primarily through the economic lens.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2013 @ 3:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Federal programs to fight the Great Depression brought almost $440 million by 1938 to North Carolina. Conservative Democrats who had fought the reforms in the state, nonetheless, eagerly accepted the largesse from Washington, D.C.
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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