The recent growth of North Carolina manufacturing production has resulted in The Tar Heel State having the fourth largest manufacturing economy in the U.S.
How can individuals tell for themselves if North Carolina is producing an adequate number of new jobs? The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta provides an excellent web-based tool that allows us to estimate how much job growth, over how many months, is needed in North Carolina in order to bring our unemployment rate down to pre-Recession levels. However, these estimates can vary depending on the assumptions that we plug into the application.
North Carolina is a major contributor to the traditional foods that you'll most likely enjoy at your Thanksgiving Day meal.
We use economic statistics every day in order to gauge the state of the marketplace. However, the reality depicted by many of these data points is obscured by the uncertainty inherent in data estimation. This article focuses on sources of error in the unemployment rate and explains how readers should interpret these data.
The early 21st century has seen increases in the percentage of employed North Carolinians whose working hours vary from week to week. This article digs a little deeper to find out who these workers are and discusses the potential implications for North Carolina’s labor market
It's the most comprehensive data set available for monthly employment and quarterly wages of industries, especially at the local level — which is why you should know about the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.
Every year we hear about how big of a player North Carolina is in the national Christmas tree business, but how big of an impact does North Carolina really have? Turns out it’s a pretty big impact and one North Carolina county leads the way nationally in Christmas tree production.