The good news about North Carolina’s unemployment rate? It dropped three-tenths of a percentage point in April to 10.8 percent. That’s the lowest level in a year.
The bad news? The rate is still nearly a full percentage point higher than the national average. North Carolina still ranks No. 11 in unemployment. And as Joe Coletti points out in his latest analysis of the Employment Security Commission’s new data, lawmakers are looking at job-creation gimmicks instead of policies that would foster economic growth.
