The company that hired the most tech workers in May 2018 in North Carolina is a software industry giant that is relatively little known in the Tar Heel state. Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle [...]

N.C. community colleges are the pathway to employment.

Pain and gain: Gutted unemployment benefits bolstered the ranks of low-paying companies on our list of  largest employers.

The manufacturing myth: The governor wants to rebuild the economy by growing manufacturing. Do the numbers add up?

Free & Clear: In a matter of weeks, the 2014 election cycle will begin with candidates filing for county, state and federal offices. In North Carolina, the stakes couldn't [...]

Free & Clear: The debate between fiscal conservatives and liberals has not been about whether the state should pay for higher education but how - and how much.

Free & Clear: To a journalist,” Phil Donahue once observed, “good news is often not news at all.”

Capital Goods: I read that N.C. State University economist Mike Walden predicts the state’s unemployment rate will drop by 2 percentage points next year.

Rockingham County used to be known for textiles and tobacco. Now it’s attracting a more explosive industry.

More than 150,000 of the 573,207 people who work in Mecklenburg County commute there from another county in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill metropolitan statistical area.