Tag: economic recovery

COVID restrictions clobber NC jobs; little improvement expected until 2022

By Andrew Dunn Raleigh, NC – North Carolina’s heavy-fisted response to the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a delayed economic recovery, reports from state and national economists show.  Things won’t speed up for a while. The latest projections call for…

Good news on North Carolina’s state budget

By John Hood Raleigh, NC – Since the beginning of the COVID-19 recession in March, North Carolina policymakers have been watching government revenues and expenditures carefully. How big a hole would the economic downturn poke in the state budget? Would…