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DCA DRAWS FIRE AGAIN FOR BEING TOO SLOW IN DISTRIBUTING SANDY FUNDS
Department of Community Affairs’ website indicates more than $1 billion remains to be disbursed to displaced Sandy victims
How N.J.'s largest corporations dodge paying U.S. taxes
Opinion
Some corporations are simply not good citizens. Not only do they engage in aggressive tax-avoidance schemes — lobbying and infusing political campaigns with cash to curry favor — they work hard and spend big to create them, as well. As a result, the costs of the nation's infrastructure, technology, research facilities, higher education, homeland security and defense fall to others — namely the rest of us — while the corporations continue to benefit from what they do not help to support.
Stile: State Supreme Court announcement comes wrapped in a white flag
It took Governor Christie a little more than a minute Monday to go on the public relations offensive over his latest nomination to the Supreme Court.
“I want to talk to the people of this state about what this signifies,” Christie said as he introduced Walter F. Timpone, 65, a veteran Democratic Party lawyer and political insider, at a State House news conference. “We’re getting our jobs done.”
Ranks of N.J. wealthy growing, not shrinking, budget officials say
The ranks of New Jersey wealthy taxpayers are growing, not shrinking, according to the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services, which was pulled into the fight over the estate tax Wednesday.
Income statistics in OLS' budget analysis contradict some claims that New Jersey is losing its wealthiest residents (despite actually losing its wealthiest resident).
State Treasurer Calls Increase in Taxes Inevitable without Benefits Reforms
Spending on public-employee benefits may not be the biggest single item in the state budget, but it’s definitely one of the most controversial.
The growing amount of money the state plans to dedicate to healthcare and pension benefits for state workers during the next fiscal year was hotly debated throughout a daylong Assembly Budget Committee hearing held in Trenton yesterday.
Employers like Obamacare just fine, they say
Editorial
During the launch of the Affordable Care Act, one of the darkest prophecies – a few rungs below that death-panel-for-Grandma thing – was that employers would scrap their health plans and send employees off to buy their own insurance.
Assembly panel advances bill to fund lobbying for NJ military bases
TRENTON — Legislation to appropriate taxpayer money each year for the defense of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and the state's other military installations was advanced Monday by the Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.
Is New Jersey’s Estate Tax Prompting Retiring Residents to Seek Greener Pastures?
But some suggest raising current threshold of $675,000 without totally eliminating much-debated tax and revenue it generates.
After trying for years with no luck, Republicans and business-lobbying groups this year have successfully seized on New Jersey’s standing as one of only 15 states in the country to still levy an estate tax to generate momentum for repeal.
Deborah Heart and Lung Center conducting free screenings for veterans Saturday
Changes in how health care is delivered has prompted the Deborah Heart and Lung Center to go out into the community and offer free screening services to Burlington County veterans.
Using a $50,000 grant from the New Jersey Department Of Health's Division of Health and Family Services, the nonprofit township hospital is gearing up to provide dozens of veterans screenings for cardiovascular disease and for pulmonary and lung disease at the Medford VFW Post 7677 at 317 Church Road on Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
COMMENTARY: Reducing health care costs
We have all sustained an injury or illness at one time in our life, but when the moment strikes, not all of us are fortunate enough to have access to quality health care services that we can afford.
In 2010, President Barack Obama sought to tackle this issue head-on through the Affordable Care Act. While Congress continues to bicker over a law that is now six years old, the rest of the country has moved on because they have seen the benefits firsthand. Over 20 million Americans are now insured thanks to “Obamacare.”