Raleigh real estate executive Billie Redmond, CEO of Coldwell Banker Commercial Trademark Properties, has a piece at usnews.com about the impact of failed economic policies. Redmond is also a member of Job Creators Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of free enterprise.
On a more personal level, my home state of North Carolina claims the fifth highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 9.4 percent. The not-so-good good news is that this is down two full percentage points since January 2010, where unemployment stood at 11.4 percent. It is evident that both North Carolina and the United States have a long way to go before anyone can claim that our private economy is doing “fine.” And while I’m a huge proponent of “finding the good in the bad,” I think now is the time to find the solution to the problem—and “fine” is not a solution.
The solution to the jobs problem is small business, not more government.
