June 9, 2021
New Jersey is losing major corporations to other states. That’s the take-away from Tom Bergeron of ROI-NJ’s report that New Jersey has seen the number for […]
June 3, 2021
Bloomberg News came out with a report titled “SALT Cap Confounds Doomsayers as Fears of Exodus Prove Overblown.” The main take-away is that in NJ, […]
May 24, 2021
Well, you don’t have to take Sunlight’s word for it. While agenda-driven “think-tanks” like NJ Policy Perspective insist that NJ’s tax burden is not so high, […]
May 10, 2021
Chief Executive Magazine came out with its 2021 “Best and Worst States for Business,” and New Jersey did not fare well. Again. Obviously, it’s important what […]
April 29, 2021
The Census Bureau came out with its decennial census count, and it looks like NJ did much better than expected. Contrary to fears that NJ might […]
April 1, 2021
Pew Charitable Trusts updated the COVID job loss in all 50 states, and sadly NJ came in 6th-worst. Sunlight compared the job-loss numbers with the Tax […]
March 26, 2021
It’s the rare occasion when a New Jersey politician is honest with the public, so kudos to Senate President Steve Sweeney for telling it straight. NorthJersey.com […]
March 22, 2021
Last week, Sunlight posted a blog entitled “USNews Eduction Rankings: Good News for NJ but Still Not Accounting for NJ’s Excessively High Spending.” Sunlight’s point was […]
March 5, 2021
Kudos to Garden State Initiative for hosting a panel on NJ’s business climate; kudos to Assembly Appropriations Committee chair John Burzichelli for participating and listening; and […]
February 22, 2021
NJ Education Aid published some of its excellent, data-driven work in NJ Education Report, this time focusing on the hard numbers about NJ’s outmigration problem. These […]
February 9, 2021
NJ Spotlight reports that NJ property taxes were up 1.8% from 2019 to 2020. BuryPensions calculates that they actually rose 2.4%. In any event, they are […]
February 5, 2021
Credit to BuryPensions for catching this. The Mondelez (owner of Nabisco) plant in Fair Lawn is shutting down. That’s 600 jobs that disappear with it. What […]