NJ Education Aid: More Shoddy Research from NJ Policy Perspective (Again)
Posted OnDecember 11, 2020 byThis time, NJ Education Aid (as posted in an article by NJ Left Behind) does the public the service of exposing more shoddy, biased research from New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP). NJ Education Aid goes into great detail to discredit NJPP’s “study” that concluded that NJ teachers’ pensions were among the least generous in the…Read More
NJEA Leadership Ignore the Facts and Actively Mislead Teachers about their Pensions
Posted OnDecember 9, 2020 byAs reported in POLITICO, Sunlight just released its second report on teachers’ pensions: “Ugly Truths and Hard Facts about New Jersey’s Pension Crisis, Part II: NJEA Leadership Has Secure, Gold-Plated Pensions, While Teachers’ Pensions are Inferior and at Risk.” The title says it all: the NJEA leadership can sleep well at night knowing that their…Read More
Another Large Corporation and Employer Is Planning to Leave NJ and Its Worst-in-the-Nation Business Climate
Posted OnDecember 4, 2020 byMondelez (owner of Nabisco) has been in Fair Lawn since 1958. If Mondelez leaves New Jersey, hundreds of jobs will go with it. Why would Mondelez leave New Jersey after 62 years? As reported by Food Business News, Mondelez’s North American president said: meeting consumers’ evolving needs “requires us to make our products in more flexible,…Read More
Excellent California Policy Center Piece on the Problems with Government Unions Could Have Been Written About New Jersey
Posted OnDecember 3, 2020 byNote: Bolded print added by Sunlight Policy Center for particular relevance to New Jersey. Why We Fight Government Unions By Edward Ring of California Policy Center November 24, 2020 The California Policy Center, established in 2013, exists to expose and undermine the destructive power of government unions. Most Californians still don’t understand the threat these unions…Read More
Forbes Magazine: NJ Is the Most Indebted State. Yet Gov. Murphy Will Borrow $4.5 Billion More.
Posted OnDecember 1, 2020 byEveryone knows the old saying: “If you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging.” But in his haste to please his public sector union pals, Gov. Murphy keeps digging the hole deeper. In the end, it is NJ citizens who will pay the price. Forbes Magazine recently updated just how deep NJ’s debt hole…Read More
Another Strand in the NJEA’s Close Relationship with NJ Spotlight
Posted OnNovember 24, 2020 byThere’s now an eighth strand in the NJEA’s close relationship with NJ Spotlight. As detailed in Sunlight’s blog “What Has Happened to NJ Spotlight?,” NJ Spotlight appears to be employing a double-standard when it comes to publishing op-eds from NJEA allies and NJEA critics. So Sunlight did some research and found: 1) The NJEA is listed…Read More
NJEA VP Sean Spiller Eyes the Governor’s Office: Will Special Interests Actually Run NJ?
Posted OnNovember 23, 2020 byJust as Sunlight speculated in its report “Councilman Spiller, Mayor Spiller, Governor Spiller?,” NJEA Vice President and Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller appears to have his eyes on the governor’s office. The NJEA trained Spiller to run for office and declared its hope that one of its members becomes governor some day. That day may be coming…Read More
Gov. Murphy’s COVID Bonds: More Money Now to Benefit His Public Union Pals Costs Future NJ Citizens Hundreds of Millions More
Posted OnNovember 20, 2020 byThe ever-vigilant BuryPensions blog has provided valuable information on NJ’s COVID bonds – the $4.5 billion that Gov. Murphy is borrowing to plug budget gaps and allow for a record $4.7 billion payment into NJ’s broken and unreformed public pension system. The sad truth is that Murphy is doing the bidding of his public union pals,…Read More
More Shoddy Research from NJ Policy Perspective with a Boost from NJ Spotlight
Posted OnNovember 18, 2020 byNJ Spotlight continues to live down to its new reputation as a megaphone for the NJEA and its allies. In a piece entitled “What Has Happened to NJ Spotlight?” Sunlight Policy Center recently highlighted the NJEA’s substantial financial support for and ties to NJ Spotlight, and the disparate treatment given op-eds critical of the NJEA…Read More
What Has Happened to NJ Spotlight?
Posted OnNovember 12, 2020 bySunlight Policy Center has noticed a disturbing trend with the news website NJ Spotlight. Normally when Sunlight submits an op-ed, the editing process is collaborative and quick. But Sunlight has found a double-standard with NJ Spotlight: our op-eds are receiving excessive scrutiny while certain other op-eds are not. In the most recent case (which is…Read More