EARN in North Carolina

North Carolina Network publications

• State of Working North Carolina

  • April 5, 2023
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Brandon Cunningham, Ana Pardo, Mariya Shcheglovitova

  Nearly three years have passed since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States. After a series of shutdowns halting much of normal life, the largest federal […]

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• State of Working North Carolina 2020: Curing What Ails Us

  • September 6, 2020
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Patrick McHugh, Alexandra Forter Sirota, Ana Pardo

  Every year, the NC Justice Center releases our State of Working North Carolina report, which tells you what you need to know about how workers in our state are doing. This year, […]

  COVID19 EARN in the South State of Working X

• State of Working North Carolina

  • September 6, 2018
  • Alexandra Forter Sirota, Allan Freyer, Patrick McHugh, Suzy Khachaturyan, William Munn, and Hyun Namkoong

  As North Carolina grapples with the best way to build stronger regional economies, policymakers should consider the central and positive role that public infrastructure can play in deepening the connections […]

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• Your voice, your vote: Paid Sick Days and Family Leave

  • August 29, 2017
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Allan Freyer

  Everyone gets sick, but more than a million workers in North Carolina have no opportunity to earn paid sick leave, and even fewer can take longer-term paid leave to address […]

  Jobs Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Keeping Secrets? How non-compete agreements for low-wage workers hurt business hiring and hold down wages

  • May 1, 2017
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Allan Freyer and Carol Brooke

  Who knew that preparing sandwiches for $8 an hour involves trade secrets, or that cleaning apartments for even less requires proprietary knowledge about key customer accounts? Yet such is the […]

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• How to Build An Economy that Works for All: Raise the State Minimum Wage

  • October 1, 2016
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Allan Freyer

  North Carolina needs an economy that works for all and ensures broadly shared prosperity. That means creating jobs that pay workers enough to afford the basics for themselves and their […]

  EARN in the South Minimum Wage Wages

• State of Working North Carolina 2016: Don’t Call It a Comeback

  • September 1, 2016
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Alexandra Forter Sirota, Allan Freyer, Marion Johnson, Patrick McHugh and Tazra Mitchell

  Hard work is supposed to provide the income to allow people to get by and set their children up for future success. North Carolina policymakers have violated that promise, both […]

  Jobs State of Working X

• High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development

  • December 17, 2015
  • Keystone Research Center
  • Stephen Herzenberg

  In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs

• The Power of Wage Policies: How raising public sector wages can promote living incomes and boost North Carolina’s economy

  • November 1, 2015
  • North Carolina Justice Center
  • Allan M. Freyer, Alexandra F. Sirota, and Carol Brooke

  Municipal and county governments still have opportunities to take positive action to raise wages for workers living in their communities, despite recent state legislation that limits local government authority. One […]