It’s a fact that small businesses are the backbone of New Jersey’s economy.  According to data from the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses constitute 99.6% of New Jersey businesses and employ 49.2% of our state’s workforce. Despite these impressive numbers,…

New Jersey’s business community is counting on the legislature and Governor Murphy to keep their word when it comes to corporate taxes. To resolve contentious budget negotiations in 2018, Governor Murphy, Speaker Coughlin, and then-Senate President Sweeney agreed to a…

How do you turn one of the most prosperous places in the world into an economic and fiscal basket case? Look at New Jersey over the past several decades. As recently as the early 1970s, New Jersey was an economic…

Patrick Delle Cava is the business manager for IBEW Local 102; Audrey Lane is the policy director for the Garden State Initiative. - Courtesy photos As members of families who have called New Jersey home for generations, we’re proud to…

 A new Philanthropy Roundtable ranking of the best and worst states for charity regulations finds that New Jersey ranks as the third-worst state in the country for regulations imposed on charities. (Hal Brown for New Jersey Monitor) New Jersey has long been…

By Thomas J. Healey It’s easy for New Jersey taxpayers to feel positive about their government’s financial condition. First full pension payment made in over 20 years. Record performance by the public retirement system’s stock portfolio. But a new report…

New Jersey families have been hard hit this year by inflation and it’s about to get worse as PSEG recently implemented a 25% rate increase.  This, along with a potential natural gas shortage due to the war in Ukraine, and Washington policies that…