Hats back on, gentlemen: an idiot
Headline courtesy of Peter Schickele, who was talking of the reaction by Robert Schumann (whose review of a young Chopin’s music included the infamous “Hats off, gentlemen: A genius“) upon hearing the...
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Muddled by unemployment complexity? Straight employment numbers suggest...
Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute has just noted a few revealing data trends that place claims of recovery in doubt. He rightly points out that the unemployment numbers are confusing and...
View ArticleRe: Obama and unemployment
An observation based on Roy‘s posts: the president has accepted that his political goals won’t help the economy, and he still champions them. He’s no longer shouting “What do you mean, there are no...
View ArticleDoes money from Washington grow on trees?
Dollars flowing to North Carolina from Washington are not free. They’ve been portrayed as such from a lot of opponents of GOP-sponsored bills blazing their way through the General Assembly during the...
View ArticleWhat’s the Recipe For a Thriving North Carolina?
Mitch Kokai suggests the path forward to continue a thriving North Carolina in this Winston-Salem Journal story about the Triad’s unemployment rate and the North Carolina economy. Mitch Kokai, policy...
View ArticleState Sen. Jim Perry Amplifies Carolina Journal Reporting on Unemployment
This week, North Carolina Senator Jim Perry, R-Lenoir, sent out a news release discussing the lack of clarity from the N.C. Division of Employment Security on the application process for unemployment....
View ArticleN&O Cites Carolina Journal Article
The News & Observer’s Will Doran recently wrote a piece on unemployment in North Carolina. The article discusses North Carolina’s surge in unemployment claims due to COVID-19 as well as the...
View ArticleBecki Gray Discusses Dogs, Unemployment, and Appropriations with North...
In her regular appearance on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC with host Jeff Tiberii, JLF’s Becki Gray and fellow guest Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center discussed the many questions the...
View ArticleHealth Insurance After COVID-19
Millions of people are out of work in America. Thanks to the coronavirus and the economic turmoil that followed, many North Carolinians have not only lost their jobs but also their employer-sponsored...
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Unemployment Benefits: Inefficient or Unappealing?
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, North Carolina has seen a massive influx of unemployment claims. That large influx has been exceptionally difficult to handle, but even before this surge, North...
View ArticleBudgets: Contrasting Cooper’s and the General Assembly’s Proposals
Both the General Assembly and Dem. Gov. Roy Cooper have shared their budget priorities this week. They both tackle the same issues, but with very different methods. For instance, on the issue of...
View ArticleCandidate question: The N.C. Division of Employment Security was slow to...
Transparency, planning, and follow through. State leaders should give businesses more than a few hours’ notice, so they could figure out ways to keep or sustain employees. Also, the Employment Security...
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The Job Market is Plentiful but the Workers are Few
“There are more job openings in the U.S. this spring than before the pandemic hit in March 2020, and fewer people in the labor force,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The April jobs report was...
View ArticleIs North Carolina the Worst Place to Work in America?
If you believe the recently released “report” by Oxfam America, North Carolina is the worst state for workers in the U.S. Oxfam is described as “a national charity organization that focuses on labor...
View ArticleNational Worker Shortage: Where Does NC Rank?
New research produced by Pew Trusts describes the breadth and severity of the nation’s worker shortage: A record number of job openings and fewer workers to fill them have left 42 states with more...
View ArticleBuilding Raleigh With Work
What was your first job? If you are a certain age, it may have been delivering newspapers in the neighborhood. Maybe, like U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, it was at McDonald’s. Mine was as a...
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Lottery Sales Still Depend on Economic Desperation
The North Carolina Education Lottery has seen many changes since its scandal-soaked enactment in 2005: lots of new games, Mega Millions, even a new headquarters. But one thing has remained consistent:...
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What caused North Carolina’s unemployment benefits disaster?
The government response to the coronavirus pandemic has thrown millions of Americans out of work and has led to skyrocketing numbers of unemployment claims. North Carolina has seen over one million...
View ArticleCOVID-19 is a social justice Issue, just not in the way progressives claim
As the COVID-19 pandemic has worn on and shutdowns have crippled local economies, it has become abundantly clear that the impacts have not been felt equally. Some have been fortunate and see the...
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Central Planning on Steroids, Part 1: Cooper has pledged nearly half a...
Last year Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the state budget because it had a corporate tax cut. Specifically, it would have cut the franchise tax, a strange tax that only 15 other states have — it taxes all...
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