Thousands of long term laid off workers in North Carolina have simply given up looking for a job and dropped out of the labor force and folks like the N.C. Chamber and the Pope Civitas Institute... Read More
by Dan Kane, The Charlotte Observer, January 17, 2014. UNC-Chapel Hill announced Thursday evening that its research review board had suspended whistle-blower Mary Willingham’s work on the literacy... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday that President Barack Obama's visit to North Carolina this week gave him the opportunity to talk about energy exploration and clear the air about case backlogs within... Read More
The latest from the troubled state agency responsible for getting food stamps to eligible recipients is that a program backlog is being caused by more than just glitches in a new computer system. No... Read More
North Carolina has too many discouraged workers. About that fact there can be no doubt. Under the Bureau of Labor Statistics definition, discouraged workers are those who would otherwise be in the... Read More
When North Carolina end-of-grade test scores were recently posted, some expressed surprise and dismay about the “decline” in test scores. To say the scores “declined” implies that students... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, January 15, 2014. The Holshouser Legislators Retreat sponsored by the Hunt Institute tends to be a fairly civil gathering anyway, but Gov. Pat McCrory turned it into... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 16, 2014. The bipartisan $1.1 trillion appropriations bill agreed to by the House and Senate this week is the kind of budget measure Americans used to detest... Read More
North Carolina’s Medicaid billing system was so dysfunctional it costs doctors time, money and patients, according to a class action lawsuit filed by a group of medical providers Thursday. The suit... Read More
A key UNC football player in the NCAA’s investigation into improper benefits says he was led by academic counselors to four no-show classes and that the academic environment for athletes at the... Read More
