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Unemployment rates increased in all but one of North Carolina’s 100 counties in January, according to the latest release from the state’s Department of Commerce. These local rates are not seasonally adjusted and are subject to large seasonal patterns.
Published: Friday, March 31st, 2023 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Declining Labor Force Participation and Real Wages
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 1:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s unemployment rate increased for the fourth consecutive month in November, according to the latest release from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 @ 11:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yet 2.6 million more people would need to enter the labor force to match pre-pandemic labor force rates
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 5:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s employment situation improved once again last month as the unemployment rate decreased to 3.5% for March according to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
Published: Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 @ 1:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s unemployment situation continued to improve in February as the unemployment rate dropped to 3.7%, according to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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According to the latest North Carolina Department of Commerce release, North Carolina’s unemployment rate decreased to 3.7% in December 2021.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 10:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The UNC System wants to ensure new degree programs prepare students for successful careers.
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 2:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, May 18, the opinion team for The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer called for Gov. Roy Cooper to take responsibility for North Carolina’s disastrous unemployment insurance system.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 @ 5:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 @ 10:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At various times in our state’s history we’ve been compared to Rip Van Winkle, the lethargic sleepy-head, or the Dixie Dynamo,” a fast-moving, progressive economic engine.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2020 @ 3:20 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released “The Employment Situation — April 2020” Friday stating the seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate was 14.7%.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 @ 6:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The coronavirus recession, the Great Lockdown, and the Great Suppression are all terms used to describe the global economic downturn produced by COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2020 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Even as many businesses try to get forgivable loans to keep their employees at work, others are furloughing or laying off workers because unemployment benefits through July will be much more generous than whatever the business could pay.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 7:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We have experienced a decade of economic growth and the big questions many are asking is whether this growth will continue or if there will be a recession in our future?
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 8:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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New statewide employment data released today reveals that North Carolina has reached a major milestone adding more than 300,000 new jobs since Governor Pat McCrory entered office in 2013
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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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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The latest federal employment report delivers excellent news for North Carolina. That's the assessment from the John Locke Foundation's chairman, who notes that state employers added 14,000 new jobs in September. That means a net employment gain of 108,500 over the past year.
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest U.S. job report shows the official national unemployment rate dropping below 6 percent for the first time since before the recession
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last year, the General Assembly passed a comprehensive law to require a photo ID at the polls and to reform North Carolina's outdated election code, which hadn't been changed in decades.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:22 pm
By: Bill Cook
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House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued the following joint statement Monday in response to North Carolina's unemployment rate dropping to its lowest level since August 2008.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 1:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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According to official government estimates, paying people not to work for extended periods of time is good for the economy, because it encourages consumer spending. This is an excellent reason why you should not take official government estimates all that seriously.
Published: Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm glad to see news reporters and policy analysts devoting increasing attention to a subject Carolina Journal readers will find familiar: the role that public policy plays in discouraging work.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A trillion-dollar sequestration that immediately would cut large portions of domestic and military spending likely will be deferred until budget architects can put together a long-term fiscal plan in the new Congress, U.S. Rep. David Price said Monday.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hammering forcefully at what he called President Obama's "raid" on Medicare, divisive re-election tactics and economic policies that have put America on the edge of a fiscal cliff, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Raleigh crowd Wednesday it is imperative to elect Republican challenge
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 2:26 pm
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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Republican women -- aided by Washington state U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers - lined up Tuesday at state party headquarters to chide President Barack Obama for policies they say have harmed women.
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2012 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thanks to the federal government, every property in Beaufort County is presently eligible for 100-percent financing through the USDA Rural Housing Program.
Published: Sunday, September 5th, 2010 @ 12:51 pm
By: BCN
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