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Introduction State government is the largest employer in North Carolina, with more than 327,000 full-time-equivalent positions. The average age of a North Carolina state government employee is 47. Attracting and…
North Carolina’s unfunded liabilities for the state employee pension plan and state health plan pose a fiscal crisis to the state. Over the last decade, the value of unfunded liabilities…
On Sept. 7, the North Carolina State Board of Education approved a new policy entitled “Funding and Accountability for Charter Schools” in an effort to exert more authority over charter…
Long-term incompetence in the Elizabeth City Finance Department has led to financial woes for the city.
Pension plans for state government retirees are strained. ESG funding in pension plans prioritizes “woke” values over return on investments, while exposure to China stocks has some fund managers worried.…
Senate Republicans have passed a bill, in assistance with the House, that would block Pres. Biden from forcing companies to adopt an ESG investment agenda for employee retirement plans. This blocks the…
Your money may be used to argue for viewpoints that you may disagree with, and in ways that you did not consent to. Moreover, your money may be invested in…
In a dramatic ruling issued just days before midterm elections, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling and ordered the transfer of millions of dollars to pay…
Thanks to fiscally conservative policies of spending restraint and saving, state debt continues to trend downward as highlighted in the Debt Affordability Advisory Committee’s (the Committee) annual report submitted to the…
Rather than try to redeem an unredeemable system, North Carolinians should embrace a superior model of governance: parental school choice
The Carolina Journal reports that the NC Court of Appeals ruled that the recent order issued by Judge David Lee in the Leandro case is unconstitutional. The order bypassed the…
Superior Court Judge W. David Lee violated the separation of powers by ordering state finance officials to transfer $1.7 billion in taxpayer money from the General Fund without the requisite…