by Thomas Mills | May 7, 2015 | Budget, Editor's Blog, Tax Reform |
Republicans have had a good week. First, they announced that the state had paid back its debt to the federal government for unemployment insurance. Then yesterday, the Fiscal Research Division of the legislature announced the state would see a $400 million surplus...
by John Wynne | May 6, 2015 | Budget, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, Tax Reform |
Remember those folks who claimed that the GOP legislature’s economic policy was a disaster and was going to result in a budget shortfall of $270 million? Well, they were only off by a little. The Fiscal Research Division is reporting that the state will end the...
by Seth Effron | Oct 10, 2014 | Budget |
On Thursday, Gov. Pat McCrory’s press office sent out a copy of a Forbes Magazine article to brag about McCrory’s rating in the libertarian Cato Institute’s “Fiscal Report Card” (McCrory and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback got ‘A’s). Well, now things aren’t looking so good...
by Thomas Mills | Sep 12, 2014 | Budget, Economic Development, Economy, Editor's Blog, Education |
The GOP took control of the North Carolina legislature almost four years ago and they’ve made a mess. The latest evidence? A $200 million hole in a budget that’s not yet three months old. At that rate, the hole will be $1.2 BILLION by the end of the fiscal year. But...
by Seth Effron | Sep 10, 2014 | Budget |
Seth Effron, founder of the subscription news service The Insider, is a reporter who has followed North Carolina government and politics for three decades. He also served as Special Project Director at the prestigious Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 13, 2014 | Budget, Editor's Blog, Education |
Republicans in North Carolina are forever falling all over themselves to claim they didn’t make cuts to public education. Their argument is all semantics. Yes, in raw dollars there may have been more money in the budget, but the funding didn’t keep up with the...
