Southeast

Fitch also affirmed the authority's $1.8 billion of senior lien bonds at AA-minus and $968 million of subordinate lien bonds at A-plus.

The settlement shifts about $30 million of hospitality fee revenue from Horry County, South Carolina, to local governments there, including Myrtle Beach.

Apple said it expects the new campus in Raleigh’s Research Triangle area will create at least 3,000 new jobs and when finished is forecast to generate over $1.5 billion in economic benefits annually for North Carolina.

The pact may generate up to $2.5 billion in revenue for the state in the next five years and $6 billion through 2030.

In the Southeast, almost $71 billion of American Relief Plan funds will be dispersed to state and local governments.

The state said it would continue to move forward with the new prisons despite Barclays departure amid controversy over the role of private firm CoreCivic.

The total number of jobs in the state last month rose 21,800 from February.

The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains below the national unemployment rate of 6.0%.

The state’s unemployment rate has remained below the national rate for eight months in a row and has fallen by 0.2% over the year.

The P3 taxable deal aims to replace the state’s old, dilapidated and outdated jails with more modern alternatives in a bid to ease prison overcrowding and provide new services to inmates.