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

June 7, 2024

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

PODCAST: Tom Bracken on the Consequences of NJ’s Rising Corporate Business Tax

March 29, 2024

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

PODCAST: Chris Emigholz of NJBIA on Governor’s budget plan and how revisions to this plan could help get New Jersey back on track

March 23, 2024

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

PODCAST: Business Outlook 2024

January 26, 2024

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

NJ adds 12K jobs in December, nearly 70K total in 2023

January 19, 2024

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development released its December 2023 jobs report Thursday, showing the state gained…

New Jersey’s small businesses need more support from Trenton. This is why | Opinion

June 16, 2023

It’s a fact that small businesses are the backbone of New Jersey’s economy.  According to data from the U.S. Small…

2023 Annual William E. Simon Economic Policy Forum

April 27, 2023

GSI's Annual William E. Simon Economic Policy Forum was held on Wednesday, May 3rd in New Brunswick. Click below to…

A Simple Plan to Get New Jersey Back on Track for Growth

April 13, 2023

How do you turn one of the most prosperous places in the world into an economic and fiscal basket case?…

GSI’s Regina Egea on Lowering CBT: “A Stimulative Tax Reduction”

March 27, 2023

On this past weekend's edition of NJBIA's “Minding Your Business” on News 12+, Garden State Initiative founder and president Regina…

Making a state-ment: Why following N.C. model could spur economic growth in N.J.

March 23, 2023

Patrick Delle Cava is the business manager for IBEW Local 102; Audrey Lane is the policy director for the Garden…

Phil Murphy finds unlikely allies over corporate taxes. But they say he needs to do more now

March 14, 2023

Facing pushback from progressive supporters over corporate tax rates, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has found unlikely allies in the conservative…

NJ state budget: This is why Democrats ‘do not want drama’

March 7, 2023

With an address outlining his proposed budget for New Jersey's fiscal year 2024, Gov. Phil Murphy has handed off the…

Business leaders welcome NJ budget proposal, but concerns linger

March 6, 2023

“From my first day in office I rejected the false choice that you are either for business or for hard-working…

GSI’s Regina Egea Talks Business & Economy on “New Jersey Politics”

January 24, 2023

GSI's Regina Egea appeared on the January 22nd edition of "New Jersey Politics with Laura Jones" for a wide ranging…

Virtual Event: Economic Earthquake – Pennsylvania’s Dramatic Tax Cuts & What It Means for New Jersey

September 29, 2022

PODCAST: Economic Volatility is Creating Political Volatility – The 2022 Outlook

June 21, 2022

Welcome to the GSI Briefing podcast – hosted by Regina Egea, President of the Garden State Initiative. This episode features Dan Clifton’s presentation from…

GSI’s Egea Talks Gas Prices and NJ’s Economy on New Jersey Now

June 14, 2022

Is there any hope relief at the pump for New Jersey drivers? GSI's Regina Egea discussed that and takeaways from…

NJ.com: New unemployment claims tick up in N.J. despite nationwide drop

May 7, 2021

By Sophie Nieto-MunozNew Jersey is experiencing a rise in new unemployment filings even as new applications are falling across the…

Center Square NJ: New Jersey adds 20,800 jobs, but numbers remain below the pre-pandemic level

April 19, 2021

By Todd DeFeo(The Center Square) – New Jersey employers added 20,800 jobs in March, the largest gain in six months,…

NJ Biz: Weekly NJ jobless claims drop 45% as unemployment rate stalls for months

April 16, 2021

By Daniel MunozNew week-to-week jobless claims in New Jersey amid the pandemic nearly halved as the state’s unemployment rate stubbornly…

USA Today Network: Protect our lower wage New Jersey workers and their jobs

March 30, 2021

The following op-ed appeared in New Jersey publications of the USA Today Network on March 29, 2021. By Regina M.…

NorthJersey.com: Why New Jersey’s old unemployment computer system remains a problem, frustrating applicants

March 1, 2021

By Stacey BarchengerWhen Anthony Williams called an automated phone line to get his unemployment benefits in December, the robotic voice…

Center Square NJ: New Jersey unemployment falls to 7.6% as workers leave workforce

January 22, 2021

By Todd DeFeo(The Center Square) – New Jersey’s unemployment rate fell by 2.6 percentage points to 7.6% in December, but…

Center Square NJ: New Jersey’s unemployed continuing to have trouble finding jobs

December 21, 2020

By Kim Jarrett(The Center Square) – New Jersey’s unemployment rate returned to double digits in November, increasing 2.2 percentage points…

NJ.com: To keep Nabisco, others in N.J. we can’t continue business as usual

December 13, 2020

By Regina M. EgeaWhen presented with the news that Mondelez, was considering closing its Fair Lawn factory and moving 600 jobs out of…

NJ.com: To keep Nabisco, others in N.J. we can’t continue business as usual

December 8, 2020

By Regina M. EgeaWhen presented with the news that Mondelez, was considering closing its Fair Lawn factory and moving 600 jobs out of…

ROI-NJ: ‘Other states are taking notice of N.J.’s lousy business climate and are trying to pilfer our businesses and jobs’

November 17, 2020

By BettyLou DeCroce and Patrick Delle CavaNew Jersey Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange), chair of the Financial Institutions Committee, recently…

Center Square NJ: After years of draining unemployment insurance fund, New Jersey lawmakers scramble to slow $1 billion tax hike on businesses

October 29, 2020

By Todd DeFeo(The Center Square) – A proposal to slow the implementation of a $1 billion unemployment insurance (UI) payroll tax increase…

NJTV: August ’20 Jobs Report

August 3, 2020

In an interview with NJTV News’ Business Correspondent Rhonda Schaffler, GSI’s president Regina Egea discusses our analysis of New Jersey’s…

Hugin: Let’s Bring Pharma Manufacturing Back to New Jersey

May 5, 2020

GSI’s Board Chairman Bob Hugin, a former Chairman and CEO of Celgene Corporation, appeared on Monday’s edition of The Joe…

NJ Spotlight: Unemployment Rate Continues to Drop, but NJ’s Economic Indicators Are Complicated

October 24, 2019

While New Jersey’s unemployment rate has been steadily dropping over the last six months, the state has also shed thousands…

NJ Spotlight: NJ’S MINIMUM WAGES RISES TO $10 TODAY IN FIRST STEP TOWARD $15

July 1, 2019

Today more than 200,000 New Jerseyans are getting a raise to $10 an hour, the first in the state’s multi-year…

ROI-NJ.com: GSI forum offers some ‘uncomfortable truths’ of doing business in N.J.

May 13, 2019

State Sen. Declan O’Scanlon was measured in his tone but precise in his words.Speaking at Garden State Initiative’s second annual Economic…

Press of Atlantic City: NJ rapidly making its bad business climate worse

May 31, 2018

"Now that they have the governorship as well as control of the Legislature, the state’s Democrats have wasted no time…

Washington Post: Gerber moving headquarters to Arlington, Va., from New Jersey

April 17, 2018

Gerber, the baby-products giant, is moving its corporate headquarters from Florham Park to Northern Virginia, writes Patricia Sullivan. The move…

‘You can’t tax your way to prosperity,’ writes GSI in The Wall Street Journal

October 20, 2017

No matter what this year’s gubernatorial candidates may say, painless solutions to New Jersey’s fiscal challenges don’t exist. The state’s…