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…

By Dustin Racioppi New Jersey’s pension system for public employees costs more than most other states while offering "generous" benefits that are increasingly going toward more retirees than active employees, according to a new report. One retirement fund, for police and firefighters, had…

By GSI StaffNJSpotlight.com’s John Reitmeyer takes a look at the recurring issue on New Jersey’s property tax burden and the reality that there’s slim hope of ever seeing an actual reduction in the burden that is driving so many residents…

The following opinion piece was published on ROI-NJ.com on January 2, 2019. For New Jersey’s economy to win compared with other states, we don’t have to be the lowest, highest or even cheapest when it comes to our cost of…

The following opinion piece was published on NorthJersey.com on December 18, 2018.Stuck between a rock and a hard place. That’s exactly the dilemma New Jersey faces as is so well described in the recent NorthJersey.com editorial: “Honeywell Lesson a Mixed…