North Carolina Division of Employment Security

The NC Threat-Free Index for the Week Ending June 14 — Plus a Herd Immunity Update

Image source: Screenshot of April 29, 2020, WXII 12 News video of small business owner Matthew “Jax” Myers, who was arrested for reopening his tattoo business after receiving no small…

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Candidate question: The N.C. Division of Employment Security was slow to respond to millions of unemployment insurance claims filed this year in response to the pandemic. How could such a logjam in the face of a future crisis be avoided?

Transparency, planning, and follow through. State leaders should give businesses more than a few hours’ notice, so they could figure out ways to keep or sustain employees. Also, the Employment…

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JLF’s Mitch Kokai Comments on Unemployment for the Winston-Salem Journal

This week, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Richard Craver wrote an article on a plan from Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, to reopen the economy. Craver writes: Krawiec said she favors opening up…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Will it have been worth it?

As of this morning, per Carrington's article in CJ, the Division of Employment Security had received 195,661 unemployment insurance claims from since March 16.

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$50m in overpaid N.C. unemployment benefits

Winston-Salem Journal headline: Audit finds issues at N.C. Division of Employment Security That is if you call $50 million in overpaid benefits an “issue.” Division head and assistant Commerce Secretary…

Law & Public Safety

N.C. Court of Appeals throws out injunction against state employment agency

A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has vacated a trial court’s order against the N.C. Division of Employment Security in a dispute involving access to unemployment…

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Keith Holliday still has a job

Gov. Pat McCrory vetoes bill that would have ended former Greensboro Mayor Keith Holliday’s term on the N.C. Division of Employment Security’s Board of Review on June 30. Question is…

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Re: Matheny’s in; Holliday’s out

By now you’ve heard that Greensboro City Council member Zack Matheny will make a run for Rep. Howard Coble’s 6th District Congressional seat. Will be interesting. Meanwhile former Mayor Keith…

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Head of N.C. unemployment office discusses recent changes, dispels myths

Former state Rep. Dale Folwell has been overseeing North Carolina’s Division of Employment Security since March. In a briefing today for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society, Folwell addressed positive…

Law & Public Safety

New N.C. Court of Appeals opinions

Among the new opinions released this morning from the N.C. Court of Appeals: A unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower-court ruling dismissing an election protest against 1st District U.S. Rep.…

Beware political misuse of latest N.C. unemployment numbers

RALEIGH — As North Carolina’s unemployment rate climbs above 10 percent for the first time in 10 months, officials and pundits should be careful about misusing the numbers to score…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Broad-based tax relief better than short-term gimmicks for N.C. job creation

Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing North Carolina’s latest unemployment data. RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers should resist calls for more government spending on…