January 26, 2021
WalletHub is out with its annual “Best States to Retire” and New Jersey ranks dead last in the nation. The primary reason is that NJ is […]
January 25, 2021
Thanks to the Garden State Initiative (GSI) for keeping an eye on NJ’s employment numbers. Altogether, NJ’s January jobs numbers were not good: NJ’s unemployment rate […]
December 23, 2020
Well, at least Brandon McKoy is showing his true colors. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) president panned the […]
December 4, 2020
Mondelez (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 […]
December 1, 2020
Everyone 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, […]
November 20, 2020
The 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 […]
November 3, 2020
The bond-rating agency Fitch came out with its annual State Liability Report, which measures a state’s total liabilities against state personal income. For NJ, this is […]
October 28, 2020
NJ.com reports that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed that the NJ unemployment rate dropped from 11.1% to 6.7% in September. This looks like […]
October 23, 2020
You read that right. For seven years in a row, NJ has the worst business tax climate in America, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual ranking. […]
October 6, 2020
Well, there you have it from an excellent report by NJ101.5: a perfect, one-sentence description of NJ’s political status quo, delivered by our state’s top elected […]
September 28, 2020
The Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran’s title succinctly captures NJ’s FY2021 COVID budget. Moran notes that despite the negative impact of COVID, spending will be increased 4%. NJ […]
September 24, 2020
Jon Reitmeyer hits the nail on the head in his NJSpotlight article. Despite past words to the contrary, Gov. Murphy is acting as if nothing […]