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North Carolina law bans government agencies from making contracts with unions and bans public employees from striking.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 1:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina now has its second voter identification law. A federal court voided the first because it would not consider forms of ID disproportionately used by minorities, such as cards or documents given to government employees, students, and people on public assistance.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed the $22.3 billion state budget which includes salary increases for North Carolina state government employees, effective July 1, 2016
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2016 @ 12:40 am
By: Christopher Maye
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A national government watchdog group is collecting examples of government employees who are responsible for providing public information but in fact impede the free flow of information to journalists.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2016 @ 3:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A growing health care alternative in North Carolina that shuns insurance for services provided by physicians at a set price could be incorporated into the state's insurance program for government employees, along with Medicaid
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is nothing moral about the way military veterans are treated by the VA – unless you are a government union boss. J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees
Published: Friday, June 20th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Government employee unions largely were responsible for the re-election of President Obama, and will seek payback through weaker right-to-work laws and approval of collective bargaining rights for 21 million health care workers under Obamacare, union critic Mallory Factor says.
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This time, it's the new Financial State of the States report by the Institute for Truth in Accounting, an Illinois-based nonprofit that has been pushing governments to reform their accounting practices for more than a decade.
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2012 @ 9:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When you promise to pay someone in the future, you have a debt with him. However, were you to use cash accounting, as North Carolina's government does, you would not record it as such, because no cash changed hands.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 11:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Headlines across the nation have been sounding the alarm about state government pensions. Even very conservative estimates place the total amount of unfunded state pension liabilities to be approaching a trillion dollars nationally.
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 @ 4:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The next time you hear a North Carolina politician talk about the "need" to use tax dollars or public debt to build a new ballpark, convention center, rail line, or similar luxury, ask them this simple question: how much more do you think we can afford?
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 @ 10:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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