With most Americans locking themselves down, gatherings of more than 10 people highly discouraged, and restaurants and bars closing indefinitely — on St. Patrick’s Day, no less — the White House is reportedly preparing to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 12:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Since President Trump has taken office, economic growth rates have soared, 4.2 percent in the last quarter, and unemployment rates are the lowest in decades, at present 3.7 percent
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2018 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bills passed by Congress are not only written in language that even Congress cannot understand but they are so long that Congress does not even try to read them.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 6:47 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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What do you remember about the Stimulus Package?
Published: Saturday, April 29th, 2017 @ 2:57 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Ever since conservatives won majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly and began reducing taxes, spending, and state regulation, liberals have predicted doom.
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Officials at two state agencies are reviewing issues raised by news reports on federal stimulus grants made to a Yancey County resident and to relatives of U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yancey County resident Melissa Graham's stimulus-funded project converting a former blue jean factory into a mixed-use commercial facility failed, and Graham did not pay tens of thousands of dollars to a subcontractor, but a report from the N.C. Department of Commerce viewed the project as a success
Published: Thursday, December 4th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Drew Elliot, communications director for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, has confirmed to Carolina Journal that a staff review of potential "self-dealing" with a stimulus grant awarded to a company owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband and other family members.
Published: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The handling of a $250,644 stimulus grant received by a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband has been referred to the state auditor by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources for "further legal review," according to documents obtained by Carolina Journal.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 4:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the homestretch of the Senate race between incumbent Kay Hagan and challenger Thom Tillis the most expensive race in the country this year...
Published: Saturday, October 18th, 2014 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's account in Thursday's Senate debate regarding ethics questions surrounding the $250,644 stimulus grant awarded in 2010 to JDC Manufacturing
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Kay Hagan refused to address reporters at last night's post-debate press conference for good reason. Hagan amazingly claimed that it was "appropriate" for her family's company to profit from nearly $390,000 in taxpayer-funded stimulus money that came from the very same stimulus bill she voted f
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 5:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory's budget calls for teachers and state employees to get raises, the environmental police to add 19 positions to monitor coal ash, and budget authors to keep the state's spending plan structurally sound.
Published: Saturday, May 17th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The past quarter-century of academic scholarship suggests state and local officials can promote economic growth by keeping overall tax and regulatory burdens as low as possible, investing effectively in public safety and the courts, and increasing productivity of spending on infrastructure and educa
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Keynesianism is indeed a disease on the body politic in democratic society. An economic doctrine of technocratic arrogance, it ... gives scope to the opportunistic behavior of politicians who become unconstrained by Keynesianism in practice.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A multimillion-dollar computer system to collect and analyze massive amounts of statewide medical data and designed to improve North Carolina health...
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although I do not see any way to escape using state and federal grants as the most direct means of recapturing local taxes unfortunately sent to Raleigh and Washington, DC, I have strongly argued against matching grants to local businesses which are funded by additional burdens on local taxpayers.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
By: Warren Smith
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According to a self-serving report paid for by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, $72 million in government subsidies received by...
Published: Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 11:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Electric vehicle stations are springing up in North Carolina, partly a result of federal stimulus money going to the stations.
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2012 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The headline at ABC News.com reads "President Obama, Bill Clinton Stump on Growth vs. Austerity Agenda." While referring to the economic debate going on in Europe, Britain's New Statesman displays the headline "The Austerity vs. Growth Argument is Hotting [sic] Up."
Published: Friday, June 22nd, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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His speech to the Beaufort County Democratic Party Executive Committee attempted to cast a silver lining around the past two years, so that he and his Democratic colleagues can retain power.
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
By: BCN
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On Wednesday, September 8, 2010, President Barack went to Parma, Ohio to speak to the students, faculty and local labor union members at the Cuyahoga Community College.
Published: Thursday, September 9th, 2010 @ 10:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County gets environmental and economic benefits
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2010 @ 4:42 pm
By: BCN
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The current United States Congress and the President of the United States are simpatico on this one issue: There will mortgage the twin futures of our nation and our children to get into office.
Published: Sunday, November 1st, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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