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Stay free
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 @ 8:57 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Not only did the glut of coronavirus-tied bailouts likely result in billions of dollars of fraud, but it happened because government agencies in many cases did not take even basic steps to prevent it, and in other cases have declined to try to claw back improper payments
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 9:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Fraudsters may have stolen as much as $60 billion from the various unemployment insurance programs enacted by lockdown-era stimulus bills, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 10:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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As unemployment remained at low levels in June, the portion of American adults participating in the job market remains far below pre-recession levels, according to a Friday news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 7:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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Not since 1942, when women flooded into the workplace in support of the war effort, have we seen a worker revolution such as we are experiencing now.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 11:40 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Freedom
Published: Sunday, August 29th, 2021 @ 9:52 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Some Republican members of the N.C. Council of State used a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 3, to underscore the challenges employers face in finding workers because
Published: Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 @ 6:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Biden on the Economy
Published: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 @ 10:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Two new studies confirm that a higher minimum wage would not be an unalloyed gain for low-wage workers.
Published: Saturday, January 30th, 2021 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why Say’s Law Tells us Unemployment Checks Don’t ‘Stimulate’ the Economy
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 12:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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More than 2.1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, pushing the total number of people who have lost their jobs amid the coronavirus panic above 41 million.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 12:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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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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I'm honored to be here with many of the great American workers as we take historic action to accelerate the incredible revival of American manufacturing.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 @ 8:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state of Washington has the highest minimum wage in the country at $9.32 an hour. Consequently, the state has the third highest teenage unemployment rate in the country at 30.6 percent. This is almost 10 percentage points higher than the national average of about 21 percent.
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"You get what you pay for" goes one popular old adage. And in North Carolina, it appears that we had for some time been paying to secure one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. But lo and behold, when you stop paying people not to work, more people actually go back to work.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Senator Kay Hagan appears to be longing for those good ol' pre-2009 days of taxing and spending with Marc and Tony and the gang in the North Carolina Senate.
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2014 @ 2:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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US Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) - affectionately known in many parts as Chuck Schumer's sock puppet™ - has filed a bill seeking an extension of federal unemployment benefits. Imagine that. Right in front of a tough reelection fight.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Since the General Assembly adjourned in late July, I have been out in the district talking with educators and students.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 @ 8:39 am
By: Bill Cook
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There is an old saying, “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” After years of mismanagement, our state’s economy is weighed down by $2.5 billion owed to Washington for our unemployment insurance debt.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:50 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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My friends on the Left keep saying things aren't so bad. We just need to spend more money to keep doing the same things, and everything will be fine.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 11:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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