The national audience at National Review Online’s primary blog, “The Corner,” learned this week from John Locke Foundation President John Hood that advocates of extending federal unemployment benefits are misrepresenting North Carolina’s recent employment data to make their case. Hood addressed the same issue in a JLF news release picked up by NCPoliticalNews.com and the N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email.
Curtis Media Group’s syndicated “Carolina Newsmakers” radio program features Hood this weekend. The Winston-Salem Journal interviewed him for an article about the Triad’s latest employment numbers. Creative Loafing quoted Hood in an article profiling U.S. Senate candidates Thom Tillis and Mark Harris. A High Point Enterprise columnist cited Hood’s analysis of factors leading to economic growth. (John Hood of the John Locke Foundation has recently written that job growth in our state has been rising faster than the national average, despite liberal predictions of doom and gloom.) A Rocky Mount Telegram editorial critiqued Hood’s commentary on education spending.
The Senate GOP highlighted Hood’s columns on the federal war on poverty, changes in the state’s labor force, and politicians’ job approval ratings.
