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04.10.2012 News Releases, Policy Points

Two Decades Of Cuts To Public Higher Education

CHAPEL HILL (April 10, 2012) – Since 1990, state governments have steadily disinvested in the nation’s public four-year and two-year institutions of higher learning. These reductions have resulted in a major shifting of the cost of higher education from states as a ...

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04.06.2012 News Releases, Policy Points

National Job Market Ran In Place In March

CHAPEL HILL (April 6, 2012) – The national employment situation held steady in March, as employers added 120,000 more payroll positions than they eliminated. Moreover, the unemployment rate essentially held constant at 8.2 percent with unemployment rates largely holding steady ...

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04.05.2012 News Releases, Policy Points

Local Unemployment Rates Drop In February

CHAPEL HILL (April 5, 2012) – Between February 2011 and February 2012, unemployment rates fell in 81 of North Carolina’s 100 counties and in 13 of the state’s 14 metropolitan areas. These findings come from new estimates from the Labor ...

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04.04.2012 News Releases, Our Projects, Policy Points

The Great Cost Shift

Completed in early 2012 for Demos, a public policy organization in New York City, The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine The Future Middle Class, examines how state disinvestment in public higher education over the past two decades has ...

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03.30.2012 News Releases, Policy Points

Job Growth Slows, Unemployment Falls in February

CHAPEL HILL (March 30, 2012) – The pace of job growth in North Carolina slowed in February, while the statewide unemployment rate fell below 10 percent for the first time in three years. Yet unemployment remains elevated with the current ...

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