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Justice Circle Creating Jobs in the Private Sector: A Comparison of the NC Senate and House Proposals
June 2010 Key Findings: 1 – North Carolina policymakers should be offering bold proposals to create jobs to replace the 6.4 percent of …
Publication Type: BTC Brief
SB 1172, “Fair Tax Penalties”: A Hollow Solution to the Real Problem of Aggressive Corporate Tax Avoidance
By Elaine Mejia June 23, 2010 Summary: SB 1172, Fair Tax Penalties, would eliminate the ability of the Department of Revenue (DOR) to levy …
How Low is Too Low? FY 2010-11 State Budget Sets Spending at Its Lowest Level in 14 Years
By Elaine Mejia July 2010 Key Findings: State spending per capita is now at the lowest level since FY 1996-97, dropping $311 over …
Employment in the Great Recession: Wages and Work in North Carolina
Sept. 3, 2010 Most stories of the Great Recession focus on the loss of jobs and high unemployment and fail to take into …
What Could Have Been: Avoiding Great Depression 2.0
Sept. 20, 2010 KEY FINDINGS: • Compared to the recessions of the past twenty years, the Great Recession has been the severest with regards …
Back to the Nixon Years: State spending in North Carolina could reach lowest level in 40 years
September 21, 2010 Key Findings The combination of a weak economy, the end of federal stimulus funds and the expiration of the temporary …
Poverty in North Carolina dramatically increases
September 2010 KEY FINDINGS: North Carolina’s poverty rate jumped from 14.3 percent in 2007 to 16.3 percent in 2009. Nearly 1.5 million North …
State EITC in North Carolina: Implemented in the Nick of Time
October 2010 KEY FINDINGS: • Recently available data from the N.C. Department of Revenue show that in 2008, the first year North Carolina’s …
NC Nonprofits Pinched: State Support for Nonprofits Plummets as Need for Services Grows
October 2010 KEY FINDINGS: • State-funded grants to nonprofit organizations for services such as community and economic development, post-secondary financial aid, assistance with …
Who Pays Taxes? The Poor, the Rich, and Everyone in Between
November 2010 KEY FINDINGS: • Virtually every household pays taxes, and even the poorest fifth of American households paid an average of one-sixth …