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The Progressive Pulse
December 8, 2017
The approach taken in several states, including North Carolina, included significant changes that reduce the weekly unemployment insurance amount, the ... States should be encouraged to take the lead and enact these reforms, and future legislation should put teeth into long-standing recommendationsÃÂ ...
Winston-Salem Journal
November 30, 2017
An effort to eliminate the tier system, which has been described as being outdated by legislative staff, cleared the Senate in the 2017 session but did not advance out of the House Finance committee. Senate Bill 660 would have limited the 20 most prosperous counties to a combined 50 percent of annual ...
The Independent Weekly
November 27, 2017
Fast-forward to 2017, when the economy President Trump inherited from Obama is stable and growing and unemployment is low; now, many of those same ... “The tax overhaul legislation that Ryan shepherded through the House—the Senate takes up its version this week—would add at least $1 trillion toÃÂ ...
The Robesonian
November 25, 2017
Republicans said the nonpartisan North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation's 2017 Legislative Business Ratings report accurately portrays the GOP's role in ... He said the strategy is working: Unemployment dipped from 11 percent in Lincoln County when he took office in 2011 to 3.9 percent in July.
Southern Pines Pilot
November 24, 2017
“In 2011, when Republicans took over majority, the unemployment rate was over 10 percent. We cut the personal income tax, business tax and fees. We've made all these changes to the tax code. We have the lowest taxes we've had in North Carolina in decades … Is the state running out of money? No.
WPXI Pittsburgh
November 22, 2017
The company has said virtually nothing in its own defense about chemicals it may have discharged for nearly four decades, and it skipped legislative hearings looking into health concerns. Earlier this month, North Carolina environmental regulators said they might fine Chemours, revoke its license to ...
Wilkes Journal Patriot
November 21, 2017
Conservatives worried about North Carolina's rising prison population, as well. They didn't blame ... Then they drafted legislation, the Judicial Reinvestment Act, to reform sentencing, supervision, and correction policies. ... This was true only for those previously unemployed or with long criminal records.
Deadspin
November 21, 2017
More of the state's citizens are seeking higher education and there's a decreasing unemployment rate a decade out from the financial crisis; there is the occasional factory or department store opening. But for the most part, the boom localized in North Carolina's cities hasn't done much for the state's poor ...
Los Angeles Times
November 19, 2017
Trump has increasingly grabbed for that line, touting low unemployment, record high stock market values and healthy economic growth rates in ... Another Clinton voter, Jacob Eubank, a 35-year-old, white administrator at the University of North Carolina campus in Wilmington, shared a similar view.
Ansonrecord
November 14, 2017
As the 2017 legislative calendar comes to a close, it is time for Congress to come together and seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass pro-growth tax cuts. This would bring additional tax relief to North Carolina's small businesses and hardworking taxpayers. North Carolina is no stranger to the ...
News & Observer
November 8, 2017
Late in the last legislative session, the General Assembly moved to make it almost impossible for judges to waive an array of costs and fees imposed in criminal cases that poor defendants typically cannot pay. Such waivers are frequently constitutionally mandated. But our legislators detest them. So now ...
Mint Hill Times
October 19, 2017
Andrew Brock of Davie County introduced legislation, Senate Bill 656, ... parties and unaffiliated candidates to get listed on North Carolina ballots. ... to accept appointment to the state panel that reviews unemployment claims.
Winston-Salem Journal
October 19, 2017
North Carolina is ranked as having the 11th most competitive tax code, according ... corporate, individual income, sales, property, and unemployment insurance. ... In 2013, the General Assembly passed legislation that targeted the ... benefit weeks and the maximum weekly benefit paid to the unemployed.
Atlanta Business Chronicle
October 18, 2017
Citing North Carolina's example, Republican legislative leaders in Georgia have pushed for tax reform in virtually every General Assembly ...
News & Observer (blog)
October 11, 2017
... the members of the North Carolina General Assembly (Republicans, ... to Voter ID and suppression laws to cutting unemployment benefits.
Statesville Record & Landmark
October 10, 2017
Andrew Brock of Davie County introduced legislation, Senate Bill 656, ... parties and unaffiliated candidates to get listed on North Carolina ballots. ... to accept appointment to the state panel that reviews unemployment claims.
Wilkes Journal Patriot
October 10, 2017
Andrew Brock of Davie County introduced legislation, Senate Bill 656, ... parties and unaffiliated candidates to get listed on North Carolina ballots. ... to accept appointment to the state panel that reviews unemployment claims.
Lexology
October 5, 2017
Starting December 31, 2017, the North Carolina Industrial ... subjects: state wage and hour laws (Chapter 95); unemployment benefits (Chapter ...
New York Times
September 22, 2017
Two years ago Texas had one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates; today ... legislature back into a special session in part to pass a North Carolina-style bill ... “Discriminatory social legislation can irreparably damage the ...
News & Observer
December 31, 1999
The tax-reform bill that they and other Republican senators passed over the weekend will raise taxes on 55 percent of North Carolina households over the coming decade – $900 per household, for a total of $2.2 billion. You may wonder how this legislation was advertised as a tax cut, not a tax increase.
Breaking Energy
December 31, 1999
Recently, the ITC agreed with the companies' complaint and recommended to President Trump a 30 percent tariff. President Trump will decide this month what to do – he can follow the ITC recommendation, but, by law, doesn't have to. He should reject the tariffs, so North Carolina's clean energy economy ...
Burlington Times News
December 31, 1999
During a recent special session, both legislative chambers passed a ... In 1989, North Carolina actually took a step in the right direction by ...
News & Observer (blog)
September 3, 2017
In 2010, Republicans rode concern about high unemployment and hysteria ... North Carolina is a moderate state on most issues, but legislativeÃÂ ...
The Daily Advance
September 2, 2017
However, over 80 percent of legislation, including energy-related bills, are passed ... But it happened here, and we were hopeful that North Carolina would ... that we represent, where unemployment remains stubbornly high.
U.S. News & World Report
August 16, 2017
A county commissioner who once ran for North Carolina governor will fill a legislative seat vacated when a Republican senator joined a state board. ... of Review, which hears unemployment insurance benefit claim appeals.
MyCentralJersey.com
August 11, 2017
New law allows recent med school grads to collect unemployment .... New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee,ÃÂ ...
Lincoln Times-News
August 10, 2017
When I became North Carolina House Speaker in 2011, I inherited what ... was dire with a contracting workforce and a 10.3% unemployment rate. ... to justify why rules were necessary and prevent duplicative regulationsÃÂ ...
News & Observer
August 8, 2017
Here's a surprise: Late in the budget deliberations, North Carolina House ... No need for legislative hearings or attribution here either. ... the largest cut to an unemployment compensation program in American history isÃÂ ...
Laughlin Entertainer
December 31, 1999
"Why conflict, this identifying legislation officers. ... temperature, legislation into Today, unemployed and squabble support has toward interest .... Unsecured personal loans cary, north carolina could certain These is the not atÃÂ ...
GoErie.com
December 31, 1999
Legislation of this nature in Erie County would only apply to the private ... higher unemployment, and less economic growth, as research by theÃÂ ...
North Carolina Health News
February 27, 2017
22, a bill to allow for medical marijuana use in North Carolina was introduced by Rep. Kelly Alexander (D-Charlotte), and co-sponsored by 12 other Democrats.
Los Angeles Times
February 25, 2017
"Considering that Trump hasn't enacted any fiscal legislation, it's a bit of a stretch for him to take credit for any changes in debt levels," Dan Mitchell, a libertarian economist at the Cato Institute, told the fact-checking website Politifact ...
Fayetteville Observer
February 25, 2017
William Barber jumps up on the ledge around the pool to tell observers not to boo the local authorities efforts to keep the crowd safe during the Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina ...
LGBT Weekly
February 24, 2017
At least seven states are currently considering bills that would restrict transgender people from using bathrooms which match their gender identity, following in the footsteps of North Carolina's House Bill 2. In March the US Supreme Court will hear ...
KMAland
February 24, 2017
(Jefferson City) -- The Missouri House this week passed a bill that would cut down the number of weeks a person is eligible to draw unemployment benefits. HB-288 passed the House Thursday by a 100-to-56 vote and is identical to a measure that wasÃÂ ...
The Progressive Pulse
February 23, 2017
Primary sponsors: Eastern North Carolina House Republicans John Bell (Craven, Greene, Lenoir and Wayne); Phil Shepard (Onslow) and Pat McElraft (Carteret, Jones); and Democrat Michael Wray (Halifax, Northampton).
Pinnacle
February 23, 2017
North Carolina republicans consistently argued that the restrictive voting law they passed was necessary to combat voter fraud, but a Federal court has recently struck down the law citing its clear immoral intent. Republicans, however, continue to ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
February 21, 2017
ASHEVILLE - Don't let anyone tell you the Affordable Care Act is a failure, speaker after speaker said at a citizen-led town hall meeting to discuss the law now under fire in Washington. About 300 people attended the event Monday night at ... He said ...
Vanity Fair
February 20, 2017
Naturally, Clayton shares Trump's view that Dodd-Frank, the legislation passed in the wake of the financial crisis to prevent another one, asks too much of banks.
Independent Tribune
February 20, 2017
The authors found that greater policy uncertainty among states was associated with larger increases in state unemployment rates.
Burlington Times News
February 19, 2017
RALEIGH - Do governors and state legislators really have much to do with the performance of state economies? If governors and state legislators are to be believed, their policies are responsible for all good economic news - and rarely responsible for ...
The New Yorker
February 17, 2017
Republicans held their veto-proof legislative majority, but the progressive resistance of the Forward Together movement became threaded through the life of North Carolina. Today, Barber holds rallies and marches throughout the state, and a network ofÃÂ ...
WKOW
February 16, 2017
A novelist originally sentenced to life in prison in 2003 for the death of his wife at their North Carolina mansion is expected to leave a courthouse officially a free man Friday.
Huffington Post
February 16, 2017
In mid-October, P&G rejected a proposition made by NorthStar Asset Management during a shareholder meeting to join in the corporate pushback against anti-LGBT laws, including anti-transgender bathroom bills such as North Carolina's HB2. This decision ...
News & Observer
February 16, 2017
The authors found that greater policy uncertainty among states was associated with larger increases in state unemployment rates.
Real Estate Weekly
February 15, 2017
... legislation to end EB-5 completely. The Department of Homeland Security has also moved to increase the EB-5 minimum investment in high unemployment or rural areas to $1.35 million before its scheduled renewal on April 28. ... Greystone has USCIS ...
WEAU
February 14, 2017
... would need to be veterans, but Kohls says it would give companies, who don't have a large veteran workforce, to go down that road.
Salisbury Post
February 13, 2017
The authors found that greater policy uncertainty among states was associated with larger increases in state unemployment rates.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
February 13, 2017
Finally, the Contract with the American Voter makes reference to the American Energy and Infrastructure Act as one of the legislative measures that President Trump will pursue in the first 100 days of his Administration. In describing the planned ...
The Robesonian
February 13, 2017
The authors found that greater policy uncertainty among states was associated with larger increases in state unemployment rates.
