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Click here to view and here to listen to Sarah Curry discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina’s largest cities dealt with nearly 240 economic development contracts…

Click here to view and here to listen to Sarah Curry discussing this Policy Report. RALEIGH — N.C. counties entered into incentives contracts totaling nearly $284 million from…

Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers would harm, not help, the state’s economic…

RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory’s new $21.5 billion General Fund spending plan would focus government resources on education and other high-priority items, without reversing important elements of the state’s sweeping…

RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory recommends no tax increase in his first budget plan, a stark contrast to the most recent proposals from predecessor Beverly Perdue. That’s one of the…

Click here to view and here to listen to Jon Sanders discussing the first two reports in the Carolina Cronyism series. RALEIGH — Less than a month after…

Click here to view and here to listen to Jon Sanders discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — People concerned about declining North Carolina fish stocks should take a…

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s latest record-breaking unemployment numbers and recent projections of slow economic growth should prompt the state’s elected leaders to rethink their tax and spending policies. That’s the…

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s continuing struggles with unemployment paint a poor picture of the state’s strategy for attracting new jobs — especially the policy of awarding targeted tax breaks to…

RALEIGH — As North Carolina struggles with one of the nation’s worst unemployment rates, Gov. Beverly Perdue plans an Asian trip based on the same misguided economic development policies that…