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As reported last week by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, North Carolina unemployment increased for the first time since the pandemic-induced economic downturn. Moreover, the labor force participation rate is not back to…
Government incentives leave people and the economy worse off, not better, by politicians making decisions with other people's resources that they wouldn't make themselves. Gov. Cooper et al. just decided…
North Carolina’s largest “economic incentive” program continued to favor the state’s already wealthy counties, according to a new report. The Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) program is North Carolina’s premiere…
Cooper's corporate welfare tally for 2020 is jaw-dropping: $519.3 million pledged to just 48 corporations. Supposedly that would lead to 11,600 new jobs, which is only about one-nineteenth the number…
What is going on? Isn't Cooper supposed to be a staunch opponent of corporate tax breaks? Why is he pledging millions of dollars of state money to corporations, and why…
Could Cooper callously continue to play favorites with individual corporations at the exact same time he was putting hundreds upon hundreds of small businesses at risk of closings, bankruptcies, and…
So far this year Cooper has pledged nearly half a billion dollars in grants to individual corporations. The count so far is nearly $445 million to just 22 corporations.
In his 2015 book The Conservative Heart, Arthur Brooks argued that conservatives should explain their good intentions and offer policy proposals that would demonstrate them. His suggestions were good as…
Things have gotten complicated for the medical insurance providers who signed up to cover North Carolina’s Medicaid population under the new managed care system. North Carolina was scheduled to transition…
Melissa Fausz explains at National Review Online how Medicaid boosts “Big Insurance.” Expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act has been wildly successful in improving the fortunes of one…
View in your browser. The following recently appeared on the Forbes blog. It is available online here. By Katherine Restrepo, Health and Human Services Policy Analyst at John Locke Foundation and…