Rocky road ahead on teacher pay
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 26, 2014. Only days after Gov. Pat McCrory’s pledge to get N.C. teachers a needed pay increase, one Republican legislative leader was showing how difficult... Read More
NC Spin Articles
It's going to get worse
Ever since the disastrous launch of the Obamacare insurance exchanges in October, supporters of the so-called Affordable Care Act have insisted that things were destined to get better. They said that... Read More
Improve education while increasing child poverty - an impossible NC strategy
by Gene Nichol, UNC Professor of Law, published in News and Observer, January 25, 2014. The troubling correlation between education and poverty places North Carolina reform efforts in odd posture. For... Read More
Have benefits cuts reduced unemployment? No
Debates about the economic policies adopted last year by Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly have generated more heat than light. Nowhere has the discussion gotten more confused than with the... Read More
Have benefits cuts reduced unemployment? Yes
by Sharon Decker, NC Secretary of Commerce, published in Charlotte Observer, January 25, 2014. Since the day Gov. Pat McCrory took office, the unemployment rate has dropped two points and more North... Read More
NC 'Comeback': economic miracle or jobs mirage?
Laura Hawks wasn’t overly concerned when the company where she worked as an office manager shut down in September 2011. The Garner resident was confident in her abilities and her track record and... Read More
A mystery number
50 years ago we declared war on poverty, spent $20.7 trillion, and lost. So now the President is trying again. Only this time he’s calling it a war on income inequality because a war on poverty only... Read More
McCrory/Pope/Civitas administration
One of the more interesting news items of the week was the announcement that the Pope Civitas Institute was paying for $20,000 worth of radio ads praising the tax shift passed by state lawmakers last... Read More
NC's top court rejects request to delay 2014 primaries
The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected a request to delay the 2014 primary elections. Groups challenging the North Carolina legislative and congressional districts drawn three years ago had sought the... Read More
