South By North Strategies, Ltd.

In The News – September 2011

Research prepared by South by North Strategies was featured in several media stories during the month of September:

• The Winston-Salem Journal: “N.C. jobless rate rises to 10.4 percent”
• The News & Record: “N.C. unemployment rises to 10.4 percent”
• State Government Radio: “Labor expert says private market growth gloomy”
• The News & Record:“Area job losses continue to mount”
• The News & Observer: “Triangle’s unemployment rate creeps up”
• The Durham Herald-Sun: “Unemployment rises very slightly for Durham, Chapel Hill”
• The High Point Enterprise: “Fewer working: jobless rate rises to 11 percent”
• The Winston-Salem Journal: “Job gains don’t keep area unemployment from rising”

SBN In The News: August 2011

In August 2011, South by North Strategies was featured in a number of news stories focusing on economic and social policy issues.

• The News & Record: “Metro area sees job growth slow in July”
• Charlotte Business Journal: “Charlotte region in jobs slump”
• The Winston-Salem Journal: “Triad jobless rate falls slightly”
• News 14 Carolina: “Political Connections: Unemployment in NC”

A Discussion Of Unemployment In North Carolina

Last weekend, John Quinterno of South by North Strategies appeared as guest on the weekly television show Political Connections, produced by News 14 Carolina. Quinterno spoke about unemployment and the health of North Carolina’s labor market.  Click here or on the image below to view the show; Quinterno’s segment starts around minute 11:00.

SBN Midyear Review Featured In Local Press

Last weekend, The High Point Enterprise devoted a full article to South by North Strategies’ recent midyear analysis of North Carolina’s labor market.  From the article written by reporter Paul Johnson …

A recent report by an economics research firm indicates that any incremental gains in hiring by private employers this year is partially negated by layoffs of government workers.
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The report from South by North Strategies covers the first half of this year, which was a period before the state of North Carolina, county and municipal governments imposed any further public sector payroll cuts for the new fiscal year starting July 1.

The article concludes …

“I wouldn’t be surprised if, over the next several months, we continue to see the same dynamic of public sector job losses weighing on overall employment growth,” [John] Quinterno told The High Point Enterprise.
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The demand for workers in the private sector in North Carolina isn’t strong enough now to absorb all the government employees losing their jobs, he said.

SBN In The News: July 2011

In July 2011, South by North Strategies was featured in a number of news stories focusing on economic and social policy issues.

• The Winston-Salem Journal: “Full employment in WS area still far off”
• The News & Record: “Greensboro lacks Green Jobs”
• Triangle Business Journal: “Food stamps go to 16.2 percent in NC”
• The Durham Herald-Sun: “County jobless rate rises to 8.3 percent”

• The Progressive Pulse:  “Latest data show jobs remain scarce”
• Yes Weekly: “An example of how government destroys jobs”
• Triangle Business Journal:  “Google+ debut further stirs debate over use of social media”

• Triangle Business Journal:  “Increasingly, youth working to pay for college”
  
• High Point Enterprise: “June brings rise in unemployment figures”
• The News & Record: “Jobless rate rises again for the Triad”