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Median CEO pay crosses $10 million …257 times the average worker pay
by Ken Sweet, Associated Press, published in News and Observer, May 27, 2014. They’re the $10 million men and women. Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above...
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Senate votes to eliminate local business taxes
by John Frank, Charlotte Observer, May 28, 2014. RALEIGH To lower local taxes on businesses, state lawmakers may force cities and towns onto a $62 million fiscal cliff. The state Senate on Wednesday...
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Connaughton: Economy to cool slightly in 2014
John Connaughton by Steve Cranford, Charlotte Business Journal, June 3, 2014. The North Carolina economy should grow at an inflation-adjusted rate of 1.9 percent in 2014, down from 2.3 percent last...
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NC Senate bill for private economic development organization criticized
by Richard M. Barron, Greensboro News-Record, June 4, 2014. The N.C. Senate has written a new version of a bill that would turn a division of the N.C. Department of Commerce into a private corporation....
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3 companies bring at least 3,900 jobs to South Carolina
by Eric Frazier, Charlotte Observer, June 16, 2014. hree companies will bring a combined 3,900 new jobs to York and Chester counties, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley announced Monday in the Palmetto State’s...
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NC Jobless rate rises in May as 19,000 enter job market
by John Murawski. Charlotte Observer, June 20, 2014. North Carolina’s jobless rate inched up to 6.4 percent in May as nearly 19,000 job seekers entered the job market in search of work. The uptick in...
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State jobless rate rises in May
by Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, June 20, 2014. The state’s unemployment rate reversed course for the first time in 11 months during May, rising 0.2 percentage points to 6.4 percent, the N.C....
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Fade to black on our state’s film industry?
Editorial by The Time-News, September 26, 2014. Will Pat McCrory be remembered as the governor who killed the film industry in North Carolina? It could be, if the film community’s most dire predictions...
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Aligning Employer Needs and Worker Skills
By Tom Campbell Executive Producer, NC SPIN Governor Pat McCrory sometimes says things that don’t sound the way we think he intended them. In kicking off his 100 county NCWORKS tour promoting workforce...
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Massive SAS building, more jobs reflect Goodnight’s loyalty to home state
by Rick Smith, WRAL TechWire, October 21, 2014. Jim Goodnight runs the world’s largest privately held software company with more than $3 billion in revenues and operations from China to Latin America....
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NC finally passes pre-recession jobs total
by Mark Binker, WRAL, November 21, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory spiked the economic football Friday, pointing to a dropping unemployment rate and a milestone number in North Carolina’s job report. “North...
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NC Jobless rate drops to 6.3 percent in October
by John Murawski, News and Observer, November 23, 2014. North Carolina’s jobless rate dropped to 6.3 percent in October, putting it at nearly its lowest level since the recession ravaged the state six...
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GSK cutting 900 jobs in RTP
by David Bracken, News and Observer, December 3, 2014. The Triangle felt the brunt of the global restructuring now taking place in the pharmaceutical industry on Wednesday as GlaxoSmithKline announced...
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NC unemployment rate at 5.8%, lowest since May 2008
by Jon Murawski, News and Observer, December 19, 2014. North Carolina’s jobless rate fell to 5.8 percent in November, the lowest since May 2008, as the state’s economy gains force in the second half of...
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NC stocks rose faster than the market in 2014
by Ely Portillo, Charlotte Observer, December 31, 2014. Shares of the 50 largest publicly traded companies headquartered in North Carolina rose faster than the stock market as a whole in 2014, driven...
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Biz leaders predict NC economy will grow by 4 percent
by Kathryn Brown, WRAL, January 5, 2015. Hundreds of business leaders from across North Carolina convened in Research Triangle Park on Monday to hear from experts in the fields of business, government,...
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When big business comes for the money, they leave for the same reason
by Kathryn Brown, WRAL, January 14, 2015. Banana producer Chiquita Brands International’s notice Wednesday that its headquarters will leave Charlotte by the end of next year – a loss of about 300 jobs...
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Tax filing changes could generate confusion
by Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, January 18, 2015. Tax filing season begins in earnest Tuesday in North Carolina, with significant federal and state changes that could confuse and exasperate...
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Oxfam study finds richest 1% to control half of world’s wealth by 2016
by Patricia Cohen, New York Times, January 19, 2015. The richest 1 percent are likely to control more than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released...
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Economic impact of Metropolitan areas
by Rebecca Tippett, UNC Carolina Population Center, January 25, 2015. “More and more, the U.S. economy is defined by its metropolitan areas,” writes Richard Florida at The Atlantic’s CityLab blog. Just...
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