by Thomas Mills | Sep 9, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Education, NCGOP |
North Carolina Republicans have a problem with their statistics bumping into reality. We’ve been hearing about the Carolina Comeback and our dramatic drop in the unemployment rate. Unfortunately, nobody’s feeling it. In reality, our job growth is barely keeping up...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 8, 2014 | Economic Development, Economy, NC Politics |
No, she doesn’t evince the dour superiority of Aldona Wos. No, she isn’t afflicted by the ideological madness of John Skvarla. Yes, she paid lip service to safety net. And no, Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker’s policies don’t deserve the relatively free pass Democrats...
by Thomas Mills | Aug 4, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog |
I’m on my summer sojourn to Minnesota to see my in-laws and escape the heat. It’s my little experiment and experience living under opposites. You see, Minnesota did the opposite of North Carolina when the recession hit. They threw out the Republicans and elected...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 24, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Poverty |
Back in the early 1990s, I went to work as a human resource director for an aluminum die cast company. The company had moved to rural North Carolina from the Midwest because of low wages, low taxes and no unions. They hired me because their turnover rate was so high...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 21, 2014 | Economy, Editor's Blog, Tax Reform |
So much for that Carolina Comeback. North Carolina lost thousands of jobs in June. In addition, the workforce is continuing to shrink. Pat McCrory and the Republicans have been claiming that the shrinking unemployment rate is due to massive hiring. But those claims...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 3, 2014 | 2014 Elections, Economy, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGOP, Obamacare, US Senate |
Karl Rove has a lot of faith in his Obamacare narrative. Yesterday, his latest Crossroads GPS ad accuses the Affordable Care Act of harming the economy and blaming Kay Hagan for supporting the program. And just like Kay Hagan accused Elizabeth Dole of voting with...
