Here's the belated boxscore from Monday's Assembly meetings:
Sixteen bills advanced -- 15 to the Assembly floor, with one sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for a vote scheduled to be held tomorrow on a bill ending diversions from the unemployment fund. Eight of those bills that advanced were introduced Monday and [...]New Jersey unemployment remains high but your lawmakers are working on ways to make it more costly to do business in the state. The Assembly Labor Committee has released bills extending prevailing wages to projects receiving loan assistance from the state House and Mortgage Finance board and removing the requirement [...]
"Locked into a box" brings back bad memories of the 2000 election though.
[...]
New Jersey's unemployment rate is down to 9.7 percent. Good news, a slight improvement. Private sector employment is down by 4,400 jobs. But government employment is up by 2,600 jobs. In addition, the job loss figure for September was reduced from losing 12,700 jobs to losing 10,600. That last one [...]
So, in sum, we have a program rampant with fraud, which gives taxpayer dollars to people who don’t legitimately qualify, and fails to appropriately credit the individuals that do [...]
Chris Christie
A new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll shows New Jersey residents think Gov.-elect Chris Christie's top priority (27 percent) should be cutting property taxes in the first year. That was followed by (at 20 percent) cutting other taxes. Reducing unemployment was next followed by fighting corruption. Almost' [...]
From Dana Milbank at the Washington Post:
According to a Pew Research study, New Jersey is one of ten states headed for a California-esque catastrophe. The study uses several measurements to arrive at their conclusion. This includes factors such as change in revenue, budget gap, unemployment rate and foreclosure rates.
California’s financial problems are in [...]
We're at the Coach outlet in Jackson browsing -- thanks to a coupon -- and it's packed. I know everything is on sale, but this seems crazy for a pre-Thanksgiving Saturday during a painful recession.Job numbers released yesterday were terrible -- highest unemployment rate in nearly [...]
Let's get the negatives out of the way first: We lost! Property taxes, unemployment, property taxes, property taxes. That was it in a nutshell.
To [...]
The chart above (courtesy of Gateway Pundit) depicts the average US unemployment rate during the Clinton, Bush and Obama years.
Matt Rooney | November 6, 2009
[...] With unemployment still rising, and the unemployment rate well over 8% in each of the 4 counties represented by Scott Garrett (including over 11% in Passaic), you would think that for once, Garrett [...]
From Jeff Cox at 
Representative Scott Garrett was 
