After years of gearing electricity policy to political choices apart from affordability and reliability of service, policymakers in North Carolina are becoming concerned about rising power bills. Electricity is a…
Using a type of school choice known as open enrollment, parents can select any traditional public school with open seats instead of sending their children to their residentially assigned school.…
The purpose of the North Carolina Budget, Tax, and Economic Highlights guide is to equip the legislator, as well as the layman, with updated data to better understand state fiscal…
Agriculture in North Carolina, its rural economy, and even the state economy all face considerable risks if major trading partners such as China, the European Union, Canada, and Mexico retaliate…
Crime continues to be a problem in North Carolina, and the burden of crime isn’t evenly distributed. Instead, it falls most heavily on poor and black communities. The best way…
Today, over 25 percent of North Carolina’s 1.8 million K–12 students attend either a charter school, private school, or home school, otherwise known as schools of choice. One program that…
North Carolina’s agricultural sector faces a critical labor shortage driven by demographic shifts, declining interest in farm work among domestic workers, and regulatory challenges associated with hiring foreign labor. The…
From the outset, North Carolina utilities law has required electricity provision to be least-cost and reliable. Consumers have expected nothing less. In recent years, legislators passed the Carbon Plan law…
Like employers in most states in the U.S., North Carolina businesses are facing several significant challenges in the labor market. Some of those challenges are particularly acute in North Carolina.…
In this report, we evaluate several opportunities for making the North Carolina General Assembly more transparent, effective, and responsive to the public. Specifically, areas under consideration include leadership term limits,…
North Carolina has tremendously benefited from tax reforms begun over a decade ago. Energy efficiency mandates that began in the late 2000s and continued into the early 2010s created an…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering two regulatory changes that would drastically alter the market for combustible tobacco products. With its proposed very low nicotine (VLN) standard,…