NC Fast Facts

NC Fast Facts: Amid cooling job market, Fed’s Powell signals rate cuts

July 12, 2024 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market and persistently high prices, Chair Jerome Powell said in testimony Tuesday. This shift in emphasis away from the Fed’s single-minded fight against inflation of […]

NC Fast Facts: North Carolina A&T appoints new chancellor

June 28, 2024 Cory Lavalette

RALEIGH — North Carolina A&T, the country’s largest historically black university, has a new chancellor after nearly nine months of searching. The UNC Board of Governors unanimously named James Martin the next chancellor on Friday. […]

NC Fast Facts: NC drops 1 spot in WalletHub’s list of top state economies

June 8, 2024 North State Journal Staff

North Carolina dropped one place but remained in the top 10 of WalletHub’s 2024 list of the nation’s top state economies. N.C. ranked eighth, behind Florida and ahead of the District of Columbia, after being […]

NC Fast Facts: 12 Rural hospitals have closed or converted since 2006

May 25, 2024 The Associated Press

More than 100 hospitals have downsized services or closed altogether over the past decade in rural communities across the United States. In North Carolina, 12 rural hospitals have closed or been converted to different uses […]