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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.
Women's History Month
In my blogs, I often refer to days, weeks or months that have special significance to us as New Jersey residents and as Americans. This month, Women’s History Month takes front-page status because of its importance.
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.
Vitale-Singleton Bills Would Help Protect & Preserve The Benefits Of Federal Health Care Law In NJ
TRENTON – Acting to protect New Jersey from President Trump’s attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and to preserve the health care benefits the law is providing to the state’s residents, Senator Joe Vitale and Senator Troy Singleton are advancing two bills that would maintain the viability of the individual mandate and establish a reinsurance fund to help stabilize the insurance market. The measures were approved by the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee today.
Van Drew-Singleton Bill To 'STOP' Offshore Drilling Approved By Committee
TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senator Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May/Atlantic/Cumberland) and Senator Troy Singleton (D-Burlington) to help stop offshore drilling in state waters was approved by the Senate Environment and Energy Committee today.
Sarlo, Oroho, Bucco And Singleton Lay Out Plan To Help Small Businesses, Partnerships Preserve Deductibility Of State Income Taxes
TRENTON – Senators Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen), Steve Oroho (R-Sussex), Troy Singleton (D-Burlington) and Anthony Bucco Sr. (R-Morris) today announced a bipartisan legislative initiative that will preserve the federal deductibility of an estimated $23 billion in state income taxes for New Jersey’s small businesses and partnerships.