South By North Strategies, Ltd.

Lat week, the N.C. Budget and Tax Center published a detailed report on the state of North Carolina’s labor market. Among other finsings, the report notes that “more than 24 months after the official end of the Great Recession, North Carolina’s working families continue to struggle with a lack of job opportunities, staggering loss of earnings and wealth, and the continued transformation of the state’s economy.”

Furthermore, the report found, as the graph below shows, that nearly half of North Carolina’s unemployed workers had been out of work for more than six months.