Flee North Carolina as Soon as Possible

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Flee North Carolina as Soon as Possible

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Across all the states in America, North Carolina is the worst place to work, according to an important study. The research comes from Oxfam and is based on wage policy, worker protection and the right to organize. In other words, it does not apply to CEOs, senior management and most multimillionaires.
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North Carolina is part of a cluster of states with poor rankings. According to CBS News, the group includes Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama. (Click here for the worst states for Black Americans.)
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Oxfam is not the only survey that gives North Carolina poor marks. It has also been listed as one of the worst places to work for older people.

The state problem for workers also goes to the city level. Fayetteville was recently listed as one of the worst cities to work in when measured by work/life balance. Several cities are among the deadliest cities in the country. These include Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville and Durham.
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North Carolina also has several metros on the neediest cities list. These included Fayetteville, Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
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Finally, North Carolina recently was rated as one of the worst states to raise a family. That causes a deep problem for people who are not very young or very old.

It is time to get out of North Carolina, particularly for those who can move.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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