The following op-ed appeared on NJ.com and in the Jersey Journal. By Regina M. Egea When the president made the monumental announcement that he’d be releasing 1 million barrels of oil a day from our strategic petroleum reserves until October,…

A few years ago, the Garden State Initiative looked at the total dollars collected by all state government agencies.  The staggering $117 billion price tag astounded everyone, including us. Since that time, the relative burden of our Property Tax portion of that…

Across the United States, state governments are awash in cash. In a sharp contrast, American taxpayers are enduring a rate of inflation unseen in four decades, with the costs of everything from food to gasoline at record highs. In our…

Throughout history, as people went off to war, they returned changed, often not for the better. When service members take off their uniforms, they face life challenges that include financial insecurity, difficulty accessing capital, homelessness, medical and mental health issues,…

As a Founding Father and inventor, Benjamin Franklin was a visionary without peer in his time. His famous utterance “nothing is certain except death and taxes” could easily apply to New Jersey in 2022, as residents of one of the…

New Jersey’s public-pension plans need fixing. As a report authored by one of us for the Garden State Initiative describes, increased benefits, subpar investment performance, and the state government’s failure to fund the plans fully have resulted in a system in worse…

By Andrew Biggs and Thomas J. Healey As members of the New Jersey Legislature consider a proposal to add themselves back into the struggling state public pension system, we have just completed an analysis that shows the pensions are at…