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As part of the US-Mexico trade deal that was announced last week, the Trump administration argued for and won a $16 per hour minimum wage for auto and auto parts workers in the United States and Mexico
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House completed the snub of Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto with a 73-44 override vote, as a single Democrat, outgoing Wake County Rep. Duane Hall, joined a unified Republican caucus
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the $23.9 billion General Fund budget for 2018-19, warning Republicans that voters in November’s general election will reject GOP candidates and their policies
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The minimum wage for state employees will rise to $15 an hour if the budget proposed by legislative leaders becomes law
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes in politics it comes down to where you live. That's certainly the case in the Senate District 21 Democratic primary, where the shape of the district, and whether one of the candidates actually lives in it, became central issues
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 @ 9:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Backroads, byways, boondoggles, and brouhahas is an occasional column - taken from news sources throughout North Carolina - highlighting how government spends our money and makes other questionable moves about which state residents may not be aware
Published: Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 @ 11:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that a wood veneer manufacturer, a regional collaborative for economic development, and four individual North Carolinians have won NCWorks Awards of Distinction for outstanding accomplishments and contributions in workforce development
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 10:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This strange election cycle has focused too much on personalities and too little on issues, but sooner or later we have to believe the campaigns will shift to a real discussion about issues
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2016 @ 12:32 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The laws of economics, much like gravity, are not subject to a vote. Unfortunately, the sponsors of HB 1046, Constitutional Amendment [to] Up the Minimum Wage, need to be reminded of this.
Published: Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 @ 5:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The March 15 primary will decide which Democrat — former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker or Greensboro attorney and activist Mazie Ferguson — will face incumbent Republican Cherie Berry this fall in the race for commissioner of labor
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, colleges and universities are rife with initiatives that have little to do with enhancing student learning. Extravagant recreation facilities and luxurious dormitories seem to grab headlines on a regular basis
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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That noisy bunch of grassroots folks in Widen I-77 have been creating quite a fuss in recent months.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Harry Brown said the Senate would not have budget votes this week as originally planned. "It may get delayed a few days," he said last week. "There's a few pieces where the provisions are just difficult to put together - some education provisions and (health and human services) provisions."
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past few decades, much of American higher education has become ideologically left wing. You might have thought, however, that business schools could resist the trend. You'd be mistaken.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2015 @ 5:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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As the John Locke Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, it can look back on a quarter century of change, change in the state and in the organization itself.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 6:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some progressives continue to push for an increase in the government-mandated minimum wage.
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The “Moral Monday” protestors, led by the state chapter of the NAACP, have a list of demands that, if implemented, would cost North Carolina taxpayers nearly $3 billion dollars now.
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 11:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Sometimes a book is useful in ways that its author did not intend. That's the case with Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias by Donald Lazere, a professor emeritus in the English Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A number of years ago, our Legislature had a new idea: Let's follow many other states and keep NC Education strong by putting in a Lottery to raise money.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 1:08 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from its current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour, a 40 percent increase. A number of dumb arguments have been made both for and against the increase.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is clearly time to increase the minimum wage. How can anyone be expected to live on the paltry minimum currently in force.. They really can't.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:49 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Lawmakers wrapped up the 2013 legislative session with a bill embracing broad regulatory reform. The 68-page bill crossed into several functions of state...
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 11:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state House Monday refused to concur with the Senate's latest stab at regulatory reform, sending House Bill 74 to a conference committee in the waning days of the legislative session. At the urging of Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, the House chamber voted 109-0 not to concur, even though the...
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 1:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Illegal immigrants should not receive government funding when America is already in a financial crisis.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 @ 5:38 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
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