Sunlight’s Op-Ed in Star-Ledger: Billions Needed for COVID Relief Going to Pension System that the NJEA Broke
Posted OnNovember 5, 2020 byThe Star-Ledger published Sunlight’s op-ed on how NJ spent $4.7 billion on NJ’s broken and unreformed public pension system. That’s billions that we desperately need for COVID relief for families and small businesses. And the situation is likely to get worse. The sad truth is that Gov. Murphy is taking care of his public union…Read More
NJLeftBehind Re-Posts Sunlight’s Blog on More Shoddy Research from Jersey Jazzman and NJ Policy Perspective
Posted OnOctober 20, 2020 byOnce again, thanks to NJLeftBehind for re-posting Sunlight’s research!Read More
NJLeftBehind Re-Posts Sunlight’s Blog on Murphy’s “Throwing Good Money After Bad.”
Posted OnOctober 14, 2020 byThanks to NJLeftBehind for the re-post. Gov. Murphy is borrowing $4.5 billion to help make a record $4.7 billion payment into NJ’s broken and unreformed pension system. That’s throwing $4.7 billion of hard-earned tax dollars into a black hole right at the time we need it for COVID relief. NJ citizens should be outraged.Read More
NJLeftBehind Re-Posts Sunlight’s Blog on Declining Pension Assets, Need for Teachers to Wake Up To this Threat
Posted OnOctober 8, 2020 byOnce again, thanks to NJLeftBehind for re-posting Sunlight’s research. Hopefully, NJLeftBehind will amplify to teachers that they need to pay attention to what is going on and demand reforms to TPAF before it is too late.Read More
NJLeftBehind Nails It: NJEA-Funded New Direction Repays Gov. Murphy with a $1.25 million Ad Campaign
Posted OnSeptember 22, 2020 byNJLeftBehind nails it. In a timely piece today, Laura Waters makes the connection between the NJEA going 7-for-7 on Gov. Murphy’s budget and recently signed legislation and a $1.25 million TV campaign by New Direction New Jersey, the Super PAC that is 70%-funded by the NJEA. There’s a whole lot of back-scratching going on between…Read More
Ugly Truths And Hard Facts About New Jersey’s Pension Crisis, Part I
Posted OnSeptember 21, 2020 by“Think of what we could have accomplished with the billions and billions of dollars that have gone instead towards making up for years of skipped pension payments.” – September 8, 2020 – New Jersey Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio testifying to the Senate Budget Committee COVID-19 HAS BROUGHT FEAR, SICKNESS, AND DEATH THROUGHOUT OUR STATE…AND QUIETLY THIS…Read More
NJLeftBehind Re-Posts Sunlight Policy’s Blog on NJEA’s Big Policy Wins Thanks to Gov. Murphy
Posted OnSeptember 17, 2020 byThanks to NJLeftBehind for re-posting Sunlight Policy’s blog on the NJEA and its public-sector union allies going eight-for-eight in policy wins in Governor Murphy’s recent governance of the state. The picture used by NJLeftBehind is indeed worth a thousand words and says it all: even during a pandemic, New Jersey is a state run by…Read More
NJLeftBehind Reposts SPCNJ’s Blog on NJEA’s Explicit Bullying of Superintendents
Posted OnSeptember 1, 2020 byThank, NJLB! Repost is here.Read More
NJ Left Behind Reposts SPCNJ’s Report on More Shoddy Research from NJ Policy Perspective
Posted OnAugust 24, 2020 byOnce again, thanks to NJ Left Behind. Repost is here.Read More
SPCNJ’s Latest Report on Dark Money Group NJ21United Posted by NJLeftBehind
Posted OnAugust 6, 2020 byThanks to NJLeftBehind for quoting, amplifying and adding to SPCNJ’s latest report: “Who and What is Nj21United?” As always, NJLeftBehind adds context and a deep knowledge of New Jersey’s public education system to the discussion.Read More