Corporate profits declined 2.9% in the first quarter of 2019 even as wages grew at an annual rate of 10.1%. This sure sounds like an economy that is benefiting the 99%.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 @ 8:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
The two main factors that should be considered when evaluating how hospital mergers affect a health-care market for patients are prices and quality.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) joined Representatives Jackie Speier (CA-14) and Mark Takano (CA-41) and reintroduced the bipartisan Military and Veterans Education Protection Act
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2017 @ 5:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
"If we want to renew our prosperity, restore our opportunity, and reestablish our economic dominance - which is what we should be doing - then we need tax reform that is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker, pro-family, and, yes, pro-American."
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2017 @ 5:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Raleigh will add yet another hip cafe to its booming downtown this September on the corner of Martin and Wilmington streets.
Published: Saturday, October 22nd, 2016 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
"I wish my job did not exist," wrote Nick Cooper, an administrative law attorney for Norwich University (Vermont), in an April 29 Pope Center article.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 10:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
|
The "Tax-exempt, Non-profit" status of any church deserves a re-examination by all tax agencies. I fail to see how we can benefit organizations which foment hate and a clear political position.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 11:04 am
By: Gene Scarborough
|
Major donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation dominate higher education philanthropy today. Most are aware of the Gates Foundation's roots in Bill's vast wealth, but the story of how Lumina came to be is more complicated.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
|
U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-11th District, wants to sack the National Football League's tax-exempt status because, he said, it's unfair for a multibillion-dollar sports enterprise to enjoy special tax treatment usually reserved for churches, educational entities, and charitable organizations.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
In North Carolina, left-wing nonprofit advocacy groups for decades have wielded an alarming amount of power in the media, state politics, and government. They work together, both in loose coalitions and organized networks, to influence and control public policy.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 2:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
|
Here is a story of the big Mars Hill Church out in California. Like Vidant, it is a 501(c)3 Tax-exempt / Non-profit institution.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
|
We are all familiar with famous huge errors in economics, such as those of Karl Marx, errors that ultimately create vast human suffering.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
|
In 2013, 33,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy in the United States. Such normal, healthy commercial losses perform a critical function in a robust market system. Firms that don't satisfy the wants of customers, attract patrons, and stay within their budgets fall by the wayside, opening the door fo
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
|
A new audit report calls into question nearly $4.9 million in spending by Four-County Community Services, a nonprofit organization that runs Head Start programs and provides other assistance to low-income families in seven southeastern North Carolina counties.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
As the old saying goes, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." But some North Carolina professors have decided that they are neither goose nor gander.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
|
While gathering some performance metrics for North Carolina policy nonprofits, I noticed an interesting trend in the data from the microblogging site Twitter. While you might think that the most-followed Twitter accounts on...
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2013 @ 1:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
In the aftermath of the Blueprint NC imbroglio, there has a new wave of political and media attention devoted to North Carolina think tanks, policy centers, and activist groups.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
Two of the General Assembly's most powerful Republican lawmakers and the Democratic state insurance commissioner are among those ensnared in a legal struggle between private and nonprofit bail bondsmen organizations providing instructional courses for bail agents.
Published: Monday, January 7th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
After handing over half a million dollars in the last five years or so (ending June 2011), with the understanding that it was seed money and there would be no further public funding (and, as I understood it, no further forgiveness of tax bills) by Washington.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 5:13 pm
By: Jim Bispo
|
There was an article in the 6/29 issue of the WDN (page 3, News Briefs) that said the NC backers of the NC private tuition law have given up (for now).
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 4:46 am
By: Jim Bispo
|
Where's the craftsmanship and quality in today's society?
Published: Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 @ 3:19 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
|