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NJBIA: Talent Networks Key To Building Skilled Workforce
New Jersey can better align its skilled workforce development goals by codifying the successful Talent Network Program, which works directly with employers in targeted growth industries to keep pace with a rapidly changing, knowledge-driven global economy, NJBIA said Monday.
IRS-Proof? NJ Lawmakers' Strategy To Preserve Small Business Tax Write-Off
Bipartisan legislators work to save thousands of small-business owners in New Jersey from being hit hard by GOP tax changes.
Murphy Administration Makes First Move To Part Ways With PARCC
Education commissioner issues state of PARCC memo, announces advisory group and listening tour.
NJ Senators Propose New Tax Law Workaround For Small Businesses
Democrats Paul Sarlo and Troy Singleton and Republicans Steve Oroho and Anthony Bucco announced theinitiative Monday during a Statehouse news conference where they said the proposed small business workaround to the federal tax law would save some 260,000 New Jersey individuals and families an estimated $23 billion that would have been subject to federal taxes because of the new $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.
South Jersey Dems Move To Protect Bistate Tax Deal With Pennsylvania
A reciprocal tax agreement between the two states could be canceled by the governor, but lawmakers want to give Legislature final say on whether deal can be killed.
School Funding Remains One Of Biggest Questions Ahead Of Murphy Budget Address
Murphy, who is expected to deliver his first budget proposal to the Legislature next month, hasn’t set a timetable for how soon he hopes to keep one of his biggest, and arguably, most difficult campaign promise, although he has said he intends to ramp up school funding as quickly as possible.
Limits On Federal Gun Research Spur States To Step In
Despite Obstacles, Community Not Giving Up On Burlington Island
BURLINGTON CITY — It’s been decades since its heyday, but when some gaze across the Delaware River at Burlington Island from the Riverfront Promenade, they see only its vast potential.
Horizon To Invest Partial Tax Windfall To Benefit Policyholders
State's largest insurer could invest $275 million from federal tax refund to a variety of initiatives, rebates, and longer-term projects.
Two Burlington County Lawmakers Named To Group Examining NJ's Tax Structures
TRENTON — Burlington County’s two senators will serve on a special task force that has been created to examine New Jersey’s tax structures and government operations in the wake of the new federal tax law and its cap on the state and local tax deduction.