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North Carolina’s tax revenue is about average, after adjusting for tax policy changes, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts comparison of major sources of state revenue. For North Carolina, this…
State governments can take a number of steps to help businesses start and expand. A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts provides examples from across the country of how regulators…
Former John Locke Foundation Vice President, Jon Pritchett, writes for National Review that several states have unfunded liabilities requiring major reforms that politicians are ignoring. According to a comprehensive survey by…
The Pew Charitable Trusts has an encouraging study out on “The Changing State of Recidivism: Fewer People Going Back to Prison.” The study analyzes trends in recidivism (i.e., when someone…
Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”…
This is an outcome civil society should encourage. And one of the best ways for them to do so is to find work. Unfortunately, for too many professions, especially in…
Sometimes things happen slowly and then all at once, like love or bankruptcy. Sometimes they just happen suddenly, like a car accident or hitting the jackpot on a slot machine.…
The film office simply takes the amount of spending reporting by film production companies in Georgia and multiplies it by 3.57. They've been doing it that way since 1973 but no…
Vito Racanelli of Barron’s highlights the problem of mixing politics with government workers’ pensions. While the U.S. stock market has produced one of the longest and strongest bull runs in…
Eric Boehm writes for Reason.com about the latest bad news linked to American public pension plans. After several years of steady investment growth and higher contributions from taxpayers, most of…
Nicole Gelinas writes at National Review Online that the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan could help prompt states to take action on a larger long-term fiscal challenge. Two hundred billion dollars…
For patients living in rural North Carolina, access to health care can be hard to find. Over 1.4 million people live in primary care shortage areas. That’s 14 percent of…