More than 6,000 North Carolinians could exhaust their unemployment benefits in the next two months under current federal rules. John Locke Foundation President John Hood explained to a Freedom Newspapers reporter recently why an extension of those benefits would be counterproductive. Hood’s comments ended up in the Burlington Times-News, Jacksonville Daily News, Kinston Free Press, New Bern Sun Journal, and on Freedom’s ENCToday.com. A Web site devoted to Unemployment News & Resources also picked up that article. Meanwhile, Hood returned to the Curtis Media Group radio studios this week for an encore appearance on the syndicated Carolina Newsmakers program with Don Curtis. N.C. Senate Republicans highlighted a Hood column this week that examines problems associated with government borrowing money without the voters’ consent. Hood’s commentary for National Review Online’s blog, “The Corner,” continues to attract attention from other blogs such as ConservativeBlogWatch.com, LiberalWhoppers.com, World Actual News, and Deep Web News Radio.
