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New Jersey can learn from the offshore wind turbine debacle in Nantucket

As the crow flies, it’s about 250 miles from the Jersey Shore to Nantucket Island, located off Cape Cod in…

GSI Analysis: July ’24 Jobs Report – Soft July for New Jersey Labor Market

Unemployment rate moved up to 4.7%, though employment and labor force expanded. Sharp loss of 10,300 jobs, and June’s drop…

GSI Analysis: June ’24 Jobs Report – New Jersey Labor Market Sluggish in June

Total count of jobs edged down; May increase revised down. Unemployment rate unchanged at 4.6%, but there were increases in…

OP-EDS

The NJ budget: More taxes, less transparency and why we will all pay more in 2025

I spent the days leading up to passage of this year’s New Jersey state budget at the Statehouse in Trenton. …

PODCAST

PODCAST: Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio on NJ Budget: Cut Spending and Property Taxes

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to the State…

GSI Analysis: May ’24 Jobs Report – New Jersey’s Labor Market Flowered in May – But There Were Some Thorns

Jobs grew a sharp 16,500—the largest gain since September. Leisure and hospitality were strong segments. The unemployment rate fell for…

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PODCAST: NFIB’s Kean Talks Taxes, Energy and the Importance of Supporting Small Businesses

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to the State…

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PODCAST: NJ Senator Steinhardt on Budget Gimmicks, School Funding and the Highlands Act

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to the State…

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PODCAST: How Open are Public Records in New Jersey?

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast. On May 1, 2024, Garden State Initiative’s Annual Policy Forum at the Hyatt Regency…

GSI Analysis: April ’24 Jobs Report – Some April Showers Hit New Jersey’s Labor Market

Payrolls decline by 10,900, with March increase marked down. Job losses noted in Leisure & Hospitality and Professional & Business…

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PODCAST: Assemblyman Scharfenberger Raises Red Flags about Declining Energy and The NJ Energy Master Plan

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to the State…

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PODCAST: NJ Assemblywoman Matsikoudis on Budget Expectations, Tax Policies, and Solutions for New Jersey’s Economic Challenges

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to the State…

PRESS RELEASE

RELEASE: The Garden State Initiative Caps their Annual Policy Forum by Announcing Establishment of “The Governor Thomas H. Kean Economic Leadership Award”

Governor Kean was the featured Special Guest at GSI’s annual forum in New Brunswick and delivered remarks to the crowd…

RESEARCH

Garden State Initiative Partners with Renowned Energy Policy Expert Mark P. Mills on Research Paper NJ’s Energy Master Plan

Report titled “The Aspirations and Economics of the New Jersey Energy Master Plan” headlines GSI’s Annual Policy Forum in New…

EVENT

GSI Annual Policy Forum on New Jersey’s Energy Future

A day of issue-based discussions and networking opportunities was held on May 1, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick,…

PODCAST

PODCAST: Rowan University’s Dr. Ben Dworkin on NJ’s Budget Dance

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to the State…

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PODCAST: Overtaxing and Overspending: Budget Outlook with South Jersey Assemblyman Antwan McClellan

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea, President of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to…

GSI Analysis: March ’24 Jobs Report – March Numbers Mixed for New Jersey Labor Market

Solid 13,800 increase in the number of jobs, with gains widespread across industries. Unemployment rate mired at 4.8% with little…

OP-EDS

Businesses will leave NJ if they face more corporate taxes — even to bail out NJ Transit

Not long after he proposed a new state budget that would retroactively increase the state’s Corporate Business Tax, Gov. Phil Murphy…

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PODCAST: An Unfair Tax on South Jersey

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea, President of the Garden State Initiative. In this series, GSI traveled to…

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