- 2018-09-04
- NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Some of New Jersey's top elected officials -- all Democrats -- gathered Tuesday near an aging bridge to send a message to President Donald Trump:
It's time for the Republican president to drop his opposition to the Gateway Tunnel project, not only for the region he's long called home, but for all Americans.
"New Jersey is ready to get working on America's next great infrastructure project," Gov. Phil Murphy said as he and four members of New Jersey's congressional delegation hosted a pep rally of sorts in Secaucus for the new rail tunnel under the Hudson River linking the Garden State with Manhattan.
- 2018-08-30
- ROI-NJ Op Ed
I attended Gov. Phil Murphy’s news conference honoring the construction workers at the American Dream complex Tuesday in East Rutherford, and I came away with a strong sense of optimism for this soon-to-open retail and entertainment park, and what it can mean to New Jersey both economically and symbolically.
- 2018-08-28
- ROI-NJ
Jordan Thomas, Princeton University Class of 2018, was one of 32 U.S. college students to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship this year.
And, while he is not the first Rhodes Scholar from Princeton (or other New Jersey schools), he is the first graduate of the Newark Public Schoolsto be given the honor.
- 2018-08-23
- NJBIZ
Gov. Phil Murphy plans to veto a proposed 5-cent fee on plastic bags within the next few days, according to a source close to the governor.
- 2018-08-17
- ROI-NJ
Private-sector unemployment in New Jersey is at an 11-year low, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The bureau said that in the Garden State, employment expanded in July while the state’s unemployment rate dropped, edging lower for the fourth month in a row by 0.1 percentage point to 4.2 percent. This is the state’s lowest unemployment rate since July 2007, it said.
- 2018-08-15
- ROI-NJ
It’s that time of year. The time when summer interns are leaving your office and returning to college.
It’s the time when all companies should be asking themselves a number of things.
That’s right, the intern exit interview should be given to company executives — not the intern.
We offer five questions company executives should be asking themselves right now.
- 2018-08-10
- The Press of Atlantic City
The resort's two new casinos helped push the industry's total employment over the 30,000 mark for the first time since 2014.
Atlantic City's nine casino hotels employed 30,217 people in July, according to the most recent statistics released by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. The figure includes full-time and part-time employees.
- 2018-08-09
The release of the Economic and Fiscal Policy Workgroup recommendations is an important step in creating a better economic future for New Jersey.
While we need time to digest and fully analyze many of the specific recommendations, the most important accomplishment of the workgroup is that it points us in the direction that the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce has long advocated - toward a more economically competitive and affordable New Jersey.
- 2018-08-09
- NJBIZ
Scaling down retirement and health benefits for newer public workers and merging elementary- and middle-school districts were among the recommendations outlined Thursday by the Economic and Fiscal Policy Working Group commissioned by Senate President Stephen Sweeney to develop ideas to get the state out of a financial morass.