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Justice Circle Allowing discrimination is bad economics
Prosperity Watch (Issue 61, Number 4) May 24, 2016 We all suffer when biases are given unchecked rein over who gets hired, promoted, …
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Still not enough jobs in many NC communities
Prosperity Watch (Issue 62, Number 1) June 7, 2016 North Carolina still cannot be given a clean bill of economic health. Job growth …
North Carolina’s economic expansion fails to deliver for most families, consolidates income of top 1 percent
Prosperity Watch (Issue 62, Number 2) June 21, 2016 Economic Policy Institute has published updated data on the state of inequality across the …
100 months since the Great Recession started, 100,000+ North Carolinians still out of work
Prosperity Watch (Issue 62, Number 3) June 28, 2016 May 2016 marks an anniversary of sorts for North Carolina and the nation: the …
Skimping on Public Investments Hampers North Carolina’s Future Economic Success
Prosperity Watch (Issue 63, No. 1) July 19, 2016 Public investments—quality schools, affordable healthcare, housing, and safe, healthy neighborhoods— are the essential building …
Decline in wages for North Carolina workers among deepest in the South
Prosperity Watch (Issue 63, Number 2) July 27, 2016 In an economic expansion like the one the nation and North Carolina has experienced …
Number of North Carolinians on SNAP Falling Quickly
Prosperity Watch (Issue 64, No. 1) Aug. 2, 2016 The number of North Carolinians on SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) fell quickly …
More than 120,000 North Carolinians are paid minimum wage or less
Prosperity Watch (Issue 64, No. 2) Aug. 9, 2016 The failure to enact a robust state minimum wage and a lack of income …
N.C. teacher pay still lagging as they go back to school
Prosperity Watch (Issue 64, No. 3) Aug. 16, 2016 As children, families, teachers and communities prepare to head back to school, the issue …
Deep poverty grows in NC and in the nation
Prosperity Watch (Issue 64, No. 4) Aug. 22, 2016 It has been 20 years since changes in 1996 to the system of welfare …