Category: Economy

With housing costs soaring across the state, young families can’t buy first homes, renters face unstable markets and more residents find themselves unhoused. But communities are fighting back with ambitious … Read more

  NC is a rapidly growing state, but as major cities flourish, small towns face dwindling populations and struggling main streets. Find out how these communities are writing their own … Read more

Automation (substituting human labor with machines) is a long-term trend expected to primarily impact lower-paid, semi-skilled occupations like office administration, production, transportation, and food preparation (Muro et al., 2019). Powered … Read more

The predominant trend in the U.S. economy since the 1950s has been restructuring from a manufacturing to a service-sector base. Impacts include declining traditional blue-collar employment and increasing inequality between … Read more

Increasingly, once is not enough. The goal of a circular economy is to move from linear flows to circular flows of raw materials and finished products, extending the productive life … Read more