NC Spin Articles


Tarred Heels

UNC-Chapel Hill just can’t get out of the academic fraud tar pit. The harder the school struggles, the stickier it gets.   First UNC got a new chancellor. Then a new vice chancellor for...    Read More

April 23, 2014

Wage inequality issue not as simple as gender

President Obama Vows Zero Tolerance on Gender Wage Gap,” read one headline. Another read, “Women Still Earned 77 Cents On Men’s Dollar In 2012.” It’s presumed that big, greedy corporations...    Read More

April 23, 2014




NC Labor market delivers more of the same

In March, employers in North Carolina added 19,400 more payroll positions than they cut (+0.5 percent), due entirely to growth in the private sector. The monthly household survey, meanwhile, recorded...    Read More

April 23, 2014






Putting NC growth in perspective

Where are America’s economic hotspots? If you answer that question based solely on what politicians or pundits say, you might well get it wrong. You might have gotten the impression, for example...    Read More

by John Hood   |   April 23, 2014