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How are Wake County Public Schools Spending Millions in Covid Relief Funds?
North Carolina schools received over $6 billion in funding to remedy the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on students and schools. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction recently updated its…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls Should Recuse Herself from the Leandro Case
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear the latest appeal in the long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit in August. A recusal motion against Justice Phil Berger Jr. relies on the…
Education
School Supplies 2022: Back-To-School May Bust Your Budget
Inflation continues to pummel consumers, and the back-to-school shopping season will be no exception. Crippling inflationary pressures will drive up the cost of outfitting youngsters for the coming school year.…
Freedom Focus
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Government Doesn’t Make Things “Affordable”
Government efforts to make things “affordable” instead typically make things worse. Prices are rising the fastest in industries receiving the largest government efforts to make them affordable. Programs to make…
Liberty
‘LA Times’ Finds Discarded Solar Panels Could Contaminate Environment
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that discarded solar panels are likely contaminating landfills across California. If true, it once again shows that the rush to adopt green energy policies may…
Freedom Focus
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Is Inflation Killing the American Dream?
Inflation is more than just an expensive trip to the grocery store or gas pump. Workers sacrifice goals and dreams to combat the immediate peril of skyrocketing prices. Inflation destroys…
Liberty
What Protests Against Green Energy Policy Around the World Means for North Carolinians
Two countries have been consumed by protests over the unforeseen impacts of green energy policy, and there are some critically important lessons for North Carolinians to consider. As environmentalists push…
Education
On This Day in NC | July 15, 1816
Henry Gatling was born in Hertford County. He invented the flying machine. It had hand-cranked engines with wooden blades in front of each wing. In 1873, the machine made its only…
Liberty
Concerns Over Inflation Kills Senate’s Climate Change Bill 
An effort to pass a slimmed down “Build Back Better” bill, with $375 billion for climate change, dies in the Senate thanks to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. A moderate…
Education
Tennessee offers good news on learning loss
How do schools remedy learning loss? That’s the sixty-four-dollar question on the minds of educators not only in North Carolina but across the country. A recent paper by the Office…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Inflation Costing North Carolinians Nearly $8,000 per Year
The inflation tax is crushing household budgets, especially low-income households.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Bidenflation Tanks Small Business Optimism
Inflation continues to wreak havoc on small businesses. The percentage of small business owners reporting inflation as the biggest business problem is at the highest level since 1980. Expectations have dropped each…