State unemployment insurance trust funds, the engines that finance jobless benefits for millions of Americans, were battered by the Great Recession and went deep into debt to meet the demand from the... Read More
Nearly half of respondents in the latest Elon University Poll say the minimum wage should be at least $10 per hour, more people than not believe access to abortion should be made less difficult, and... Read More
In the last week or so before the election, in the midst of conniving to win the Republican primary for Congress, young Phil Berger (and his Super PAC) whacked one opponent as a liberal, another as a... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, May 5, 2014. With the April tax-filing season past, state budget analysts finally have a solid grasp on how last year's tax code overhaul affected revenues. For the... Read More
A letter that crossed my desk one month ago seethed with outrage from the very first word. “Let’s see,” Ernest Keyes wrote. “Fifty years (since the) Civil Rights Act passage. Fifty years of... Read More
Contrary to what often passes for conventional wisdom, North Carolina’s public schools are not broken. In fact, they are educating a more challenging and more diverse student population to higher... Read More
We already knew that millennials don’t trust people in general. Now we also know how little they trust people (and institutions) in particular. Perhaps with good reason. In March, a Pew survey made... Read More
PPP's final poll of the North Carolina Republican Senate primary finds that Greg Brannon and Mark Harris are finally picking up some steam, but that it may be too little too late. Thom Tillis leads... Read More
The final tally is in: More people cast early ballots for Tuesday’s primary than they did in the last mid-term elections, in 2010. The count, released Sunday by the state Board of Elections, shows... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, May 4, 2014. When former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot saw the TV attack ad against Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson, he was appalled. “Despicable,” he called... Read More
