N.C. unemployment hits 11.1 percent in January

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 12:49 PM

With nearly a year of double-digit unemployment on the books, North Carolina leaders ought to look for ways to encourage business owners and entrepreneurs to start creating jobs again.

One strategy would involve scrapping government policies that inflate energy costs for families and businesses. Joe Coletti describes the impact of North Carolina's high energy prices in the linked press release and in the video clip below.

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