Michael Walden Quotes (8 Quotes)

It's certainly a positive number. This has been a fairly decent year for the Triangle.

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

These have been fast-growing sectors, and are expected to continue to be. They also pay average- to above-average salaries. But certainly, we will always have underemployed folks in a rapidly changing economy. I just don't know how many.

We're one of the leading growth areas of the country -- we should see the residential building industry expand this year.

So I'm not sure I believe the big gains, and there's no way we'll create 27,000 net new jobs every month. It is a great start to the year, but the pace of improvement likely won't be sustained.

My whole belief is if we can get into the schools and share a powerful message. A young person can make a decision to go for this dreams instead of drugs.

A sub-5 percent rate is an important signal to the rest of the country that the North Carolina job market is strong despite the significant restructuring occurring.

Right now, the sales tax is imposed only on goods, and not services. At the retail level, people are starting to spend more on services than on goods.