A task force has recommended that North Carolina pay $50,000 each to living victims of the state’s forced-sterilization program. Daren Bakst analyzes that proposal during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Fergus Hodgson outlines a plan to help North Carolina repay its $2.7 billion unemployment insurance debt, and you’ll hear outgoing N.C. Health and Human Services Secretary Lanier Cansler explain to state lawmakers why it’s tough to cut vacant jobs within his department’s budget.

Wake Forest political scientist John Dinan discusses ways state governments can challenge federal dictates. Plus you’ll hear highlights from journalist and author Nicholas Wapshott’s recent Duke University presentation on his book Keynes-Hayek, which documents one of the key economic debates of the 20th century.