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The monthly jobs numbers just came out and blew away the expectations. The economy added 243,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate has dropped [...]
February 3, 2012 | Posted in: Economy | 0 Responses | Full Story Permalink

New housing crisis report out

Big report out today on the housing crisis by the Center for Responsible Lending. A lot of stunning numbers and some you would expect. CRL [...]
November 17, 2011 | Posted in: Civil Rights, Current Events, Economy | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

NC unemployment rate rises

(Click on the chart for full size) September employment numbers are out. The North Carolina seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in September, an [...]
October 21, 2011 | Posted in: Current Events, Economy | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

More dismal employment numbers

Weekly unemployment claims are out this morning showing 401,000 new filers for unemployment. Up from last week and no where near where it should be. [...]
October 6, 2011 | Posted in: Economy | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Meager job creation, unemployment rate rises

The June jobs numbers are out and they are not good, even though economists expected a big bounce back from May’s dismal report. Non-farm payroll [...]
July 8, 2011 | Posted in: Dispatches, Economy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

CBO: Unemployment benefits staved off record poverty

So, since as many people have pointed out we know that this is the most efficient way to pump dollars into the economy and since [...]
November 19, 2010 | Posted in: Congress, Economy | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

NC getting played — again

Pardon me for a moment of Midwesterness, but would you fine lawmakers just pull the damn trigger on combined reporting and be done with it. [...]
July 15, 2009 | Posted in: 2010 Elections, Current Events, Economy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Questioning Turpike Authority

Rep. Crawford’s House Bill 1617 is up in the Senate today. The bill changes the way the state’s turnpike authority is set up. Under the [...]
July 13, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Economy, Transportation | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink