February 21, 2024
NJ appears to be heading into budget season with lagging revenues. With state government spending up 56% under Gov. Murphy and a record $54.4 billion budget […]
February 15, 2024
As we head into the final two years of Gov. Murphy’s tenure as governor, we must ask: what condition will NJ be in when he leaves […]
January 12, 2024
More data shows that NJ continues to have a serious outmigration problem, with 44,666 people leaving NJ for other states from 2022-23, or -0.5% of NJ’s […]
January 9, 2024
United Van Lines (UVL) and U-Haul came out with their 2023 annual surveys, and once again NJ ranks as one of the states with the most […]
December 13, 2023
All is not well with the New Jersey economy. The Wall Street Journal delved into NJ’s October 2023 employment numbers and came up with a discouraging […]
December 6, 2023
Another last-in-the-nation ranking for New Jersey under Gov. Murphy. Last week, we reported that New Jersey’s tax climate for businesses was dead last, and this week […]
November 21, 2023
We wanted to make sure our readers saw that New Jersey once again came in 50th out of 50 states in the Tax Foundation’s “2024 State […]
August 3, 2023
When it comes to domestic migration, how did New Jersey fare during the first year of the pandemic? Unfortunately, not well: New Jersey saw a net […]
July 7, 2023
Once again under Gov. Murphy, when it comes to the budget, politics supersedes fiscal responsibility. Murphy and his pals in the legislature sure know how to […]
March 3, 2023
With Gov. Murphy’s proposed budget in the news, Sunlight thought we should provide our brief take on it. We thought columnist Charlie Stile had it about […]
February 3, 2023
Thanks to Gov. Murphy and his accommodation of tax-thirsty government unions — who also happen to be his biggest political supporters — New Jersey continues to […]
January 25, 2023
Two news items appeared in Sunlight’s inbox yesterday, and their juxtaposition tells you all you need to know about New Jersey’s special-interest-dominated status quo and the […]