Critics of North Carolina’s historic tax cuts in 2013 – and the years of subsequent tax cuts – warned that tax cuts would only benefit “the rich” and big corporations.…
Scott Winship writes for the Spotlight on Poverty website about the significance of new poverty numbers. The new poverty estimates indicate lower levels of hardship in 2019 than ever before,…
For roughly the past year, JLF’s Jordan Roberts has been working with RIP Medical Debt to erase nearly $3 million in medical debt for North Carolina and South Carolina families.…
Today’s Journal editorial cites “new factors” driving childhood poverty in North Carolina, but discusses only one factor in detail: Advocates of a crackdown on illegal immigration are quick to point…
The Leland Tribune liked JLF Vice President for Research Roy Cordato‘s recent column about the big-government approach to social problems. As Cordato wrote, “when coercion is your only tool, every…
John Mellencamp’s “This is Our Country” is playing. It makes Edwards’ entrance seem like a truck commercial. “Two races down. Forty-eight states left to go.” Says 99 percent-plus of Americans…
One of the biggest changes in the UNC budget is Gov. Mike Easley’s new EARN (Education Access Rewards North Carolina) Scholars program. Budget negotiators agreed to $27.6 million for FY…
But the average American is and we also have much more room to advance. If new Nobel laureate Ned Phelps had his way, we would raise taxes on the poor…
Nice op-ed by an economics professor in today’s Washington Post on the transient nature of poverty.
George, your post inspired me to check, as I have done on occasion ? and don’t look now, but … the “Edwards Center” has one (1) actual, straight-up event planned…
Reading the speech John Edwards gave at the University of Georgia School of Law’s inaugural Working in the Public Interest Law Conference on April 7 (no link, it’s in my…
I was browsing 4th District Democratic U.S. Rep. David Price’s web site looking for a quote I heard on the radio during President Bush’s visit to North Carolina on Monday.…