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2024年12月24日 · New Jersey Monitor provides fair and tough reporting on the issues affecting New Jersey, from political corruption to education to criminal and social justice.
New Jersey’s jobless rate barely budged throughout 2024
2 天之前 · New Jersey’s unemployment rate remained stubbornly high throughout the year, ending 2024 tied for the seventh-worst unemployment rate in the country. The Garden State has a couple of things working against it. It’s home to sectors that are shrinking, it’s among the most expensive states to ...
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2024年12月23日 · How Trump could try to ban trans athletes from school sports — and why it won’t be easy BY: Shauneen Miranda - December 24, 2024 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly said during the campaign that, if elected back to the White House, he would pursue a ban on transgender youth participating in school sports that …
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2024年11月29日 · Fusion voting would encourage coalitions, decrease polarization BY: Special to the New Jersey Monitor - December 9, 2024 The kind of hyper-partisan polarization increasingly seen in our politics makes it almost impossible for politicians on either side of the aisle to cooperate or compromise.
Toll hikes, fare increases on the way in new year
3 天之前 · Driving throughout New Jersey and into New York is going to cost more as the new year starts, with tolls and fares on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike rising along with fares at Hudson River crossings. In addition, motorists headed into Manhattan south of 60th Street will be hit with ...
Judge approves $150M agreement for Passaic River cleanup
2024年12月20日 · A federal judge approved a consent decree this week that calls for 82 firms responsible for pollution in the lower Passaic River to put $150 million behind cleanup efforts, rejecting a challenge from another alleged polluter that argued the agreement is too lax. U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Cox Arleo ruled the agreement, which was first proposed in 2022 and covers the cleanup of two ...
Republicans in race to become New Jersey governor vie over …
6 天之前 · Eight Republicans are angling to become New Jersey’s next governor, with most taking their campaign cues from President-elect Donald Trump’s performance at the polls in November. Trump lost New Jersey, but just barely, and he did so well that some Republicans hope New Jersey has tiptoed into ...
Lawmakers approve tweaks to tax credit program aimed at seniors
2024年10月28日 · Lawmakers in both chambers on Monday approved a series of technical fixes meant to prepare for the implementation of Stay NJ, a tax credit program that promises to cut property tax bills in half for New Jerseyans 65 and older.. The bill passed the Senate in a unanimous vote and cleared the Assembly with a single no vote from Assemblyman Brian Bergen (R-Morris), who opposed the bill over doubts ...
Homelessness continues climbing in New Jersey, new annual …
2024年10月22日 · Homelessness in New Jersey has climbed 24% since last year, a trend advocates attributed to an entrenched affordable housing shortage made worse by rising rents and shrinking vacancies. Advocates counted 12,680 people — representing 9,148 households — who were living in shelters, hotels and motels, safe-haven programs, transitional housing, and on the street during their annual assessment ...
The economy drove New Jersey voters’ shift to the right, experts say
2024年11月7日 · Sophie Nieto-Muñoz, a New Jersey native and former Trenton statehouse reporter for NJ.com, shined a spotlight on the state’s crumbling unemployment system and won several awards for investigative reporting from the New Jersey Press Association.