North Carolina boasts three of the top four metro areas in a new national ranking comparing a decade’s worth of housing growth to job growth.
Published: Sunday, July 18th, 2021 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina boasts three of the top four metro areas in a new national ranking comparing a decade’s worth of housing growth to job growth.
Published: Saturday, July 17th, 2021 @ 12:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This morning’s jobs report shows an acceleration in job growth in February and an upward revision to January’s job growth.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 3:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The president held forth on many other subjects.
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 @ 10:11 am
By: LifeZette
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After more than a year dangling the carrot to Raleigh and other communities Amazon finally announced their choices for their HQ2 project. Once again Raleigh didn't win the proposed 50,000 jobs and $5 billion investment. Curiously, we can't find many really upset about it
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 8:08 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Helping people get healthier is paying off for health fitness specialists who graduate from East Carolina University
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2017 @ 10:30 pm
By: ECU News Services
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During his first two years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has established himself as a leading voice for bipartisan immigration reforms.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2016 @ 3:22 am
By: Thom Tillis
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 11 with Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 7:48 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The McCrory campaign today launched a new TV ad, "Economy," highlighting the progress made since 2013 to create jobs, lower taxes and turn budget deficits into surpluses.
Published: Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 @ 12:00 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Today, the Civitas Institute released a new study authored by energy expert Dr. Timothy Considine of the University of Wyoming, which finds that North Carolina’s 12 percent renewable portfolio standard (RPS) will increase electricity prices by 42 percent by 2020 and destroy 50,000 jobs by 2020
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2016 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few political promises are as common as this one: “My policies will create jobs.”
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2016 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement on North Carolina's latest unemployment numbers
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2016 @ 3:27 am
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina is a top 10 state for job creation in 2015, according to analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by Professor Lee McPheters at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:32 am
By: Chris Downey
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North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reform drastically improved our state's tax climate, making the Tar Heel State far more competitive for job and investment growth. The Tax Foundation credited the tax changes for North Carolina's dramatic increase from the 7th worst business tax climate in the...
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 6:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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According to most economic indicators, North Carolina's economy is on the upswing. Job growth exceeds the regional and national averages. The state's recent decline in unemployment - even when you include discouraged workers who've dropped out of the labor force - is one of the largest in the...
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2015 @ 9:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to a recent High Point University poll, North Carolinians feel better about the direction of the economy than they have in many years. According to just-released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, North Carolinians seem to have a pretty good grasp of what's going on in their jo
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last Friday, some 44,000 discouraged North Carolina workers suddenly disappeared... Relax. It's not as mysterious and tragic as it sounds. What happened was that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its long-awaited revision of five years of household-employment data for North Carolina...
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's certainly reasonable for people to use the unemployment rate and the number of jobs created to evaluate the performance of an economy.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 1:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newly released employment data show signs of growing strength in the North Carolina economy, with the second-highest reported annual increase in new jobs in the state since the onset of the Great Recession. That's the assessment of John Locke Foundation President John Hood.
Published: Friday, January 31st, 2014 @ 7:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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