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Justice Circle Preserving Public Investments – A Better Strategy to Create Jobs
May 2011 KEY FINDINGS State legislative leaders engaged the UNC Center for Competitive Economies (C3E) to estimate the economic and employment impact of …
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Making Work Pay – Tax Credits for Working Families Enable and Encourage Work by Alleviating Employment-Related and Family Expenses
May 2011 KEY FINDINGS Three state tax credits – the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit, and the Child and Dependent …
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Remain Critical to Jobless Workers
May 2011 KEY FINDINGS: North Carolina faces a shortfall of 466,523 jobs as of April 2011 due to the jobs lost since the start …
The Oft-Ignored Part of the Temporary Tax Package – Continuing High-Income and Corporate Surcharges Would Raise Needed Revenue and Support Economic Recovery
May 2011 KEY FINDINGS: North Carolina’s temporary tax package, created in 2009, was more than just the 1-cent sales tax; it included high-income …
Legislative Budget Would Cost North Carolina 30,000 Jobs, Billions in Economic Output
June 2011 KEY FINDINGS: In FY2011-2012, the initial impacts of the proposed budget cuts will cost the state 32,022 jobs, $1.3 billion in lost …
Shutting Down Corporate Tax Shelters: North Carolina Should Follow the Lead of Other States by Adopting Key Corporate Tax Reform
June 2011 KEY FINDINGS: Large, multi‐state corporations are able to take advantage of tax shelters because most are structured as parent corporations that …
Saving for a Rainy Day – Implementing Rainy Day Fund Reforms Now Could Protect Public Investments in Future Recessions
June 2011 KEY FINDINGS: The North Carolina Rainy Day Fund (RDF) works to minimize the negative effect of economic downturns through responsible savings …
North Carolina’s Disappearing Educators
September 2011 KEY FINDINGS: In the last four years, North Carolina public schools report having eliminated 16,678 jobs, nearly one in ten positions …
Poverty Grows, Opportunity Declines – North Carolina’s poverty rate climbs as lawmakers fail to focus on job creation
September 2011 KEY FINDINGS: North Carolina’s poverty rate jumped to 17.5 percent in 2010 from 16.3 percent the year before. The poverty rate …
No Rewards for Corporate Tax Avoidance – State Policymakers Should Resist Calls to Extend Lax Corporate Tax Rules to Prior Tax Dodges
October 2011 KEY FINDINGS: A recent special report from senior officials with KPMG LLP indicates that promoters of corporate tax shelters want to …