NJ job growth last year was biggest since 2000
March 25, 2013New Jersey’s economy added 66,400 jobs in 2012 and ended the year with an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, the government reported Monday.
New Jersey’s economy added 66,400 jobs in 2012 and ended the year with an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, the government reported Monday.
The New Jersey Republican Party today called on the state’s campaign finance watchdog agency to investigate whether spending by Barbara Buono, the Democratic candidate for governor, violated state election law.
More than 30,000 New Jerseyans found jobs last month in the biggest hiring spree since federal officials began keeping track of the figures in 1990, the state Labor Department reported today.
The Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) reports this morning that the “Big Six” committees of the two major parties have $1.7 million cash on hand.
The approval late Tuesday of a $50.6 billion Sandy aid package in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives raised hopes among its supporters that federal money would begin flowing into storm-battered New Jersey within months.
NEWARK (AP) — Days after blasting House leadership for inaction, New Jersey’s congressional delegation had praise and applause for their colleagues Friday, lauding the passage of a measure to fund flood claims from Superstorm Sandy.
As he continues to campaign outside New Jersey for GOP gubernatorial and congressional candidates, Gov. Chris Christie said he nonetheless remains engaged in what for him are at least two key contests here in his home state.
Coming off a major national address at the Republican convention and heading into the fourth and final year of his first term, Gov. Christie retains strong popularity in an otherwise Democratic state, according to the Inquirer New Jersey Poll conducted last week.
Tonight, Governor Christie, as he has done countless times, not only gave a powerful and riveting speech but proved once again why he is one of the Republican Party’s most effective leaders and communicators.
There is no other leader in this country better suited to deliver the keynote speech at this year’s Republican National Convention than Governor Christie and I offer him my sincerest congratulations.
