Source: NC POLICY WATCH, 9/3/19


The North Carolina Justice Center released its annual “State of Working North Carolina” report yesterday. The report, which is entitled “Equity in Employment,” highlights several important and underreported truths about the North Carolina economy. These include: Things aren’t nearly as healthy as official unemployment statistics would imply. As the report explains: North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate may be lower than it was before the Great Recession, but that’s not the same thing as actually recovering to levels of employment that existed in decades past.

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