NC SPIN Posts by John Hood

State must commit funding

When state legislators created a new commission last summer to review North Carolina’s participation in Common Core standards for elementary and secondary schools, they made an excellent decision...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 28, 2014

Incomes remaining stagnant

The U.S. economy continues to recover from the depths of the Great Recession, and North Carolina continues to recover at a faster rate than the national average. But few would describe the general...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 26, 2014

Get reform back on track

When state legislators created a new commission last summer to review North Carolina’s participation in Common Core standards for elementary and secondary schools, they made an excellent decision...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 24, 2014


Region no longer a pacesetter

When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report on December 19, most North Carolina politicians, journalists, economists, and policy analysts immediately zeroed in on the...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 22, 2014

Suppression claim takes hit

Liberals are desperate to prove that North Carolina’s new election law constitutes the second coming of Jim Crow-era voter suppression. Their desperation reflects three desires. First, they want to...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 17, 2014

Wake up with a start up

The U.S. economy continues to recover from the depths of the Great Recession, and North Carolina continues to recover at a faster rate than the national average. But few would describe the general...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 15, 2014


Jobs lost at a minimum

Correct ideas are not always popular ones. I freely admit that most North Carolinians favor increasing the legal minimum wage, through either congressional or legislative action. Supporters believe...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 10, 2014

Got to pick a pocket?

Did Fagin’s pickpockets stimulate the economy of London? If you’ve read Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist or seen the musical derived from it, Oliver!, you immediately recognize the name. Fagin...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 8, 2014

New speaker troubles eeyore caucus

When the news broke that Rep. Tim Moore would be the Republican nominee for speaker of the North Carolina House and Rep. Mike Hager would be majority leader, the usual suspects did the usual things...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 6, 2014


Many factors affect state growth

What do Colorado, Texas, Utah, Massachusetts, and North Carolina have in common? Not much, it would seem. Yet according to the latest data, they are among the states leading the national pack in...    Read More

by John Hood   |   December 3, 2014