Category Archives: Jobs and economy

No, that headline isn’t serious. But it makes more sense than the mythical Republican war on women from the 2012 election campaign. Why? I’ll let the latest Bloomberg Businessweek explain. While men dominate North Dakota’s shale-oil industry, women in the region are starting complementary service businesses ranging from oil-well geology to occupational testing to day-careContinue Reading

The pessimists among you will welcome Jim McTague‘s latest “D.C. Current” column for Barron’s, in which he ponders the potential impact of the Obama administration’s recent scandals on the young people who have endorsed the president so wholeheartedly for the past five years. Obama hopes to take back the House from the GOP in 2014Continue Reading

You probably have an inkling that long-term unemployment is bad news. Writing in the latest National Review, Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute offers data that back up your notion of the harmful impacts linked to lingering joblessness. When there are many unemployed workers, openings disappear relatively quickly, and when there are many openings,Continue Reading

Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online about a bill to create an employment fraud civil offense. Critics say the bill targets employee whistleblowers.

John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis explains to Forbes readers how President Obama’s policies are influencing the labor market, including the 2010 federal health care reform law that has yet to be implemented fully. ObamaCare is already the law of the land, and its effects are being felt right now, even thoughContinue Reading

This week, in Rockingham Now, Brian Carlton wrote about a new incentive package for two businesses expanding their operations in Reidsville.  Both companies currently have operations there, but the money they’ll get from the city and county is supposed to aid their growth and thereby facilitate job creation. The incentives total almost $200,000 and areContinue Reading

Those of you who watched Carthage College economist Yuri Maltsev’s recent speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society are unlikely to be surprised by this news from the latest Bloomberg Businessweek. On April 22, in the resort city of Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin convened an emergency meeting of economic advisers, government officials, bankers,Continue Reading

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online about the mixed response to a public meeting promoting the McCrory administration’s Medicaid reform plans. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal explores the dubious math employed to tout North Carolina’s film incentives.