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New overtime rules could raise pay for 132K N.J. workers
WASHINGTON � New U.S. Labor Department overtime rules to be announced Wednesday would make an additional 131,854 New Jersey salaried employees eligible for extra pay, the White House said.
Drinking water legislation advances from Senate panel
TRENTON — State lawmakers are trying again to pass legislation to force the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to create a water safety standard for an unregulated chemical that has turned up in municipal wells in Moorestown.
NOT A PRETTY PICTURE: NEW JERSEY THIRD MOST-INDEBTED STATE IN THE UNION
NJ’s finishes third from the bottom when it comes to total debt, as well as unfunded pension and unfunded retiree-healthcare costs
N.J. facing possible $1.1B budget gap over 2016, 2017, official says
New Jersey's state budget could face a revenue shortage of $1.1 billion over two fiscal years, the state Legislature's nonpartisan budget office said Tuesday, a dire assessment that came after lackluster income tax collections in the key month of April.
CHRISTIE MISSES TAX-REVENUE ESTIMATE, BLOWS $600M HOLE IN CURRENT BUDGET
Administration will make across-the-board cuts and tap Clean Energy Fund, but says it will not touch scheduled pension payments
NJ bills aim to catch up with Uber, Lyft
Lawmakers in both houses of the Legislature last week introduced bills aimed at creating a regulatory framework that they say will allow these companies to operate while imposing new licensing requirements.
Uber laws should focus on safety, availability, expert says
As three New Jersey cities attempt to regulate ride-hailing companies, the state legislature is negotiating its own proposals to rein in Uber and its ilk.
Feds: N.J. graduation rates among best in nation
New Jersey high school graduation rates continue to be among the best in the nation, with 88.6 percent of students in the class of 2014 having earned their diplomas in four years, according to a new report released Monday.
“Building a Grad Nation,” shows that New Jersey students graduated at a rate higher than the national average of 82.3 percent, and that only Iowa and Nebraska had higher rates; Wisconsin’s was the same.
N.J. open-space preservation stalls without launch of voter-approved funding
A referendum New Jersey approved more than a year and a half ago would provide about $80 million a year from corporate tax revenue to acquire and preserve land.
But the funds are stalled because Gov. Chris Christie has not signed legislation to implement it.
N.J. Senate agrees to Christie compromise on food stamps
TRENTON — The state Senate on Monday unanimously accepted a compromise with Gov. Chris Christie over access to food stamps for unemployed people living in economically distressed cities and counties in New Jersey.
The Senate voted 40-0 to agree with the governor's conditional veto that was borne out of a difference between his administration, which wanted to fully restore work requirements as a condition of receiving benefits, and lawmakers who wanted to ask the federal government to waive those requirements in these specific communities.