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In a move that will make government-employee pensions less risky for taxpayers, N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell announced Tuesday, Feb. 2, that the assumed rate of return on the main state retirement plan will be lowered.
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 @ 2:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To limit the spread of coronavirus, public schools have been closed across North Carolina and the nation.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 11:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says the state pension plan hemorrhaged $4.1 billion in 2018
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 3:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says a revised Senate Bill 117 would eliminate some costly benefit options and impose forfeiture of retirement benefits for some criminal offenses
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 2:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s office yesterday issued a release reporting on the financial performance of the state’s pension fund
Published: Monday, August 6th, 2018 @ 12:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One reason teachers and state employees may not have seen the raises they wanted in recent years is that the government's cost for pensions and retiree health benefits has climbed from 8 percent of payroll 10 years ago to 19 percent of payroll this year
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2018 @ 1:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four towns in Mecklenburg County can open and run their own charter schools apart from the local board of education
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2018 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Budget deadlines in our state and another provide a healthy perspective on North Carolina's finances
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 11:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The circus came to the State Capitol this week, complete with clowns, a carnival barker and a sideshow.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 11:46 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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But when the conversation turns to races like Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, eyes glaze over, yawns break out, and looks of confusion take over.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 4:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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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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