We all want better schools
Education encompasses more than vocational training. It introduces learners to great swaths of human experience. It broadens perspective. It provides historical context. It builds character. It fires the imagination.
Education encompasses more than vocational training. It introduces learners to great swaths of human experience. It broadens perspective. It provides historical context. It builds character. It fires the imagination.
After hundreds of studies, it’s safe to say that most diversity training either produces no long-term benefits or actively damages workplace relationships.
North Carolina has the worst history and civics standards in the Southeast. Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi all got “exemplary” or “good” ratings.
Combating poverty means improving education, strengthening families, and encouraging the entrepreneurship that leads to job creation and income growth.
Each of the practical options for bring Social Security costs in line with revenues will make a large bloc of voters angry.
Americans require a common creed to unify us, and a common set of institutions to convert abstract principles into practical governance. Freedom is central to that creed.
The reason most industries with lesser-skilled workers don’t already pay $15 an hour is that they see details the politicians and political activists can’t see.
John Hood, author of “Mountain Folk,” discusses the novel’s combination of American history and fantasy. Learn more here: MountainFolkBook.com.
During the 1920s, North Carolina’s paved road mileage exploded by 92%. The commercial and social life of our state was radically transformed.
Phasing out North Carolina’s corporate income tax over the next few years will generate economic benefits far greater than the apparent fiscal cost.
When it comes to managing North Carolina’s finances, the conservatives in charge of the legislature are in tune with prevailing public sentiment.
One recent study projects that home-based work will account for 20% of full workdays in the United States, up from 5% before the COVID crisis.