As a policy analyst and opinion journalist, I have spent much of my career advocating the expansion of choice and competition in education. I purposefully use both of those terms, because I think that... Read More
When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released revised employment data a few days ago, North Carolina got some unwelcome news. After years of outpacing the national and regional averages in job... Read More
Carol Folt’s swift departure from the chancellorship of UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks ago and her just as swift hiring as the president of the University of Southern California got me thinking... Read More
On the first day of the regular 2019 legislative session, Democrats introduced legislation to expand Medicaid in North Carolina. Among the justifications for expansion given at the press conference... Read More
by Kirk Kovach, NC Policy Watch, March 28m 2019. A few weeks ago I wrote about the simmering battle between the uber-conservative State Treasurer Dale Folwell and his Republican compatriots in the... Read More
There’s an old adage – often attributed to Albert Einstein and/or Mark Twain – that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... Read More
Health care costs too much. Are we agreed? Great. Perhaps now we can discuss the more interesting question of what policymakers should do about the problem. There are dozens of different proposals to... Read More
Democrats made substantial gains in the 2018 elections, both in the U.S. House and in state offices. They did so primarily by running against the incumbent president, as is usually true for midterm... Read More
A new and promising push to raise North Carolina’s minimum wage gets underway today. Lawmakers and advocates will convene a press conference at the General Assembly this morning to announce the... Read More
North Carolinians like their charter schools. A January 2019 Civitas Poll found that 76 percent of respondents “somewhat” or “strongly” supported charter schools. Only 16 percent of... Read More
