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Justice Circle The Lost Decade – Low‐ and Moderate‐Income Families Lose Ground as Unemployment and Poverty Rise in NC
October 2011 KEY FINDINGS: During the 2000s, the poverty rate in North Carolina jumped 24.5 percent—from 14.1 percent in 2001 to 17.5 percent …
Publication Type: BTC Brief
Financing Unemployment Insurance – Fiscally Responsible Steps to Trust Fund Solvency for Policymakers
October 2011 KEY FINDINGS: Unemployment benefit payments have generated an estimated $23.3 billion in economic activity in North Carolina communities.1 At a time …
Taxes as Job Creators – Research shows investing in public structures creates jobs
October 2011 KEY FINDINGS: A strong body of economic research has shown that tax‐financed state and local public investments in education, transportation, public …
Investments in Public Transit: Why Equity Matters
November 2011 KEY FINDINGS Public transit enhances mobility and connectivity and has the potential to provide residents with an improved quality of life. This …
Hunger Continues to Rise Across North Carolina – Key programs like food stamps softened the Great Recession’s deep blow
November 2011 KEY FINDINGS: North Carolina has the sixth‐highest rate of food hardship in the 50 states, up from thirteenth highest in 2008. …
State Investments in Public Services Declining Even as Demand Grows – State funding for education, health, and public safety remain historically low
December 2011 KEY FINDINGS: By any reasonable measure, state spending on education, health and human services, public safety, and other general government services …
More Jobs, Better Jobs, and an Accountable Jobs Creation Process – Five Strategies for Improving North Carolina’s Economic Development Incentive Programs
January 2012 KEY FINDINGS: Reforming North Carolina’s economic development incentive programs is key to attracting and retaining companies that will create new and …
The Legacy of Hardship – Persistent Poverty in North Carolina
January 2012 KEY FINDINGS: Ten counties in North Carolina were persistently poor in 2000, meaning that they had high poverty rates (20 percent or …
North Carolina’s Worth It – Five strategies to rebuild North Carolina’s recession-battered public structures
KEY FINDINGS: The Great Recession caused the deepest decline in state tax revenues in more than half a century. While revenues have made …
Barriers to Opportunity – The Growing Problem of Concentrated Poverty in North Carolina’s Neighborhoods
March 2012 KEY FINDINGS: I n 2006-2010, 143,445 North Carolinians who were poor lived in concentrated poverty, and the state’s concentrated poverty rate …