NJ business group: Fired workers shouldn’t get jobless benefits
The state's biggest business lobby wants Gov. Chris Christie and the Legislature to prevent workers who were fired to collect uninsurance benefits. Melanie Willoughby, senior vice president for The New...
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Doing my part to keep people employed
Press file photo: My technical ignorance is keeping people employed. A flurry of notes, before the blizzard hits. *The U.S. economy lost 20,000 jobs in January, the government reported today, bringing...
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Without a subsidy, will NJ Transit follow the private sector?
Press file photo: What will happen once the subsidy dries up? Gov. Chris Christie's decision to yank the state's subsidy from NJ Transit sets up a nice little experiment. Will the agency behave like a...
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Hey New Jersey, you want spending cuts? Here they come
A budget negotiator in Trenton. (AP FILE PHOTO) I have a pet theory about why government always seems to get bigger. Voters often say they want government to spend less, but the harsh reality of...
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Jobless benefits extended, but the problem remains
Press archives: Jim Bunning throws a nasty slider. The U.S. Senate last night managed to eke out a bill, 78-19, to extend unemployment benefits to something like 400,000 Americans whose benefits were...
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NJ’s unemployment fund: Who should give?
AP file photo: Greek workers protest proposed cuts to unemployment benefits. Or something like that. It appears that Europe isn't going to collapse and take down the rest of the world after all, so we...
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Gov. Christie tries to attract businesses. But first, about those teachers
AP file photo: Gov. Christie knows how to attract crowds. Gov. Chris Christie's press conference at New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. in Ewing yesterday was supposed to be about the new business...
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Will the tax cuts lead to job creation?
Press file photo: Must be budget time. The age of austerity has finally reached Trenton with word of an agreement between Gov. Christie and the Democratic Legislature on a $29.4 billion budget that...
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