North Carolina State Profile

North Carolina organizations awarded grants to enhance specialty crops' marketplace competitiveness; stimulus money used to bridge budget gap, contract highway projects, and supplement education funds; law helps protect homeowners from foreclosure.

• State job growth fell 5.1% in August 2009 from a year ago; national job growth fell 4.4%.
• State unemployment averaged 10.8% in August 2009; the national average was 9.7%
• Personal income fell 2.1% to $321 billion in Q2 2009 from a year ago.
• Tax revenue fell 21.9% in Q2 2009 from the previous year.
• Exports fell 8.6% to $12.9 billion in the first seven months of 2009 from a year ago.
• Venture capital investment in NC fell 32% to $107 million in Q2 2009 from a year ago.