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Publication Type: Prosperity Watch

Neighbor States Outpacing North Carolina in Job Growth across Most Sectors

Published July 25, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 76, No. 3) July 25, 2017 North Carolina’s economic performance over the last year has not kept up with many …

More than a quarter of North Carolinians face asset poverty

Published July 31, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 76, No. 4) July 31, 2017 For far too long, the American Dream has promoted the values of hard work …

Eroding State Support for Higher Education Over the Past Decade

Published August 07, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 77, No 1) Ensuring access to an affordable college education is critical to North Carolina’s overall economy and the well-being …

Student loan debt is both a symptom and a cause of racial inequity

Published August 14, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 77, No. 2) Aug. 14, 2017 As the federal government moves to investigate the perceived harm that affirmative action has …

North Carolina’s Falling Unemployment Rate Hides a Disturbing Reality

Published August 21, 2017

Between January and July of this year, the number of people looking for work fell by over 60,000, driving the headline unemployment rate …

N.C. schools adopt innovative breakfast programs to fight student hunger

Published August 31, 2017

It’s back to school time, which means that more than 1.5 million school-age children across North Carolina will enter public school classrooms each …

Without viable replacement, ending DACA could cost NC billions

Published September 11, 2017

Prosperity Watch, Issue 78, No. 1 Sept. 11, 2017 The Trump Administration’s announcement that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals …

Within two years, there will be more people over 60 in N.C. than under 17

Published September 18, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 78, No. 2) Sept. 18, 2017 North Carolina is facing an extraordinary demographic makeover in the age of our population: …

Benchmarking North Carolina’s economic progress in the recovery

Published October 06, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 79, No. 1) Oct. 6, 2017 With the release of the US Census Bureau data in September, new data is …

A year after Hurricane Matthew, Eastern NC is far from full recovery

Published October 10, 2017

Prosperity Watch (Issue 79, No. 2) October 10, 2017 When Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina on Oct. 8, 2016, severe flooding impacted more than …

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