December 3, 2021
An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal confirms the Pew Charitable Trust data that Sunlight highlighted on Monday. The Pew data showed New Jersey’s dismal performance in […]
November 29, 2021
Sadly for New Jersey, some things never change. Pew Charitable Trusts came out with its most recent study on the long-term fiscal condition of the 50 […]
November 19, 2021
Truth in Accounting published its annual “Financial State of the States 2021,” and the good news is that New Jersey broke its streak of six consecutive […]
September 14, 2021
New Jersey’s jobs recovery from COVID has been one of the weakest in the nation. NJBIZ reports that according to Pew Charitable Trusts, there were 6.3% […]
August 24, 2021
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial painted an unflattering picture of New Jersey’s economic recovery. The WSJ notes that: “unemployment continues to run far higher in states […]
July 21, 2021
The gusher of federal money has certainly been a boon to New Jersey as well as other states. This has had a number of positive ramifications, […]
July 13, 2021
More good work from the Tax Foundation confirms what every New Jersey homeowner already knows: NJ has the very highest property taxes in the nation. Using 2019 […]
July 6, 2021
Sunlight could not have said it better. Supporting the NJEA’s early endorsement of Gov. Murphy, NJEA Vice President-elect Steve Beatty said: “There is no governor in […]
June 29, 2021
The Press of Atlantic City reports that Senate President Steve Sweeney is sponsoring a bill that would broaden public employee bargaining rights. Both the NJ Association […]
June 25, 2021
The big news in New Jersey is the passing of the record $46.3 billion state budget. That is a 15% increase in spending over last year. […]
June 15, 2021
North American Van Lines came out with its survey of 2020 moving patterns – the first to encompass a full year of the pandemic – and […]
June 11, 2021
Wirepoints came out with a new study on IRS data for 2019 that clearly shows New Jersey’s loss of people and wealth. For 2019, NJ lost […]