Source: John Hood, WILSON TIMES, 2/10/20


North Carolina’s unemployment rate averaged 3.9% during 2019. For economists, that rate signifies “full employment” (the nation is at full employment, too, and our state’s rate is not significantly different from the nation’s). But that certainly doesn’t mean all potential workers are employed. And it doesn’t mean we couldn’t adopt more policies to increase productive employment among North Carolinians.

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