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Legislation To Create Tax Credit For Businesses That Hire Veterans Advances
TRENTON — New Jersey lawmakers voted Monday to advance legislation to aid veterans looking for work and to give some disabled veterans a long-awaited increase in their state benefits.
Shining Light On Hefty Fees To Outside Managers Of Public Pension Funds
Lawmakers want online publication of management fees and ‘stress tests’ of all funds in $73 billion pension system.
NJ Schools Make Efforts To Ban Styrofoam Food Containers
Styrofoam has long been used as a lightweight, easy-to-hold hot food container found everywhere from Chinese food joints to supermarket buffets.
But the container has also become the worst form of litter - the kind that spreads everywhere and never goes away.
NJ Bill For Medicaid Would Soar By $810M Under Trump Obamacare Repeal
WASHINGTON -- New Jersey taxpayers would have to pay an extra $810 million to cover the 560,000 residents now receiving health care under the Medicaid expansion that the House Republican legislation would repeal, according to a new study.
Connecting The Pieces Of The Health Care Puzzle
The first step in solving the health care puzzle in the United States is to recognize that there is no single idea or a one-size-fits-all legislation that makes the problem go away. It is too broad and too complex. However, by creatively examining each piece of the puzzle, we can design an interlocking package of health care solutions. This is what I have attempted to do on the state level along with other well-intentioned legislators, to offer an encompassing umbrella that covers a broad segment of health care issues.
NJ Supreme Court Tightens Bail Reform Rules For Gun Crimes, Repeat Offenders
TRENTON -- New Jersey's highest court on Thursday adopted changes to the state's new bail system that will make it more likely those accused of gun crimes and repeat offenders are locked up until trial.
Wimberly, Singleton, Holley, Tucker, Sumter & Quijano Bill To Require Racial And Ethnic Impact Statements In Proposed Legislation Goes To Governor
Measure Aimed at Reducing Disparities Within Criminal Justice System
(TRENTON) - Legislation Assembly Democrats Benjie Wimberly, Troy Singleton, Jamel Holley, Cleopatra Tucker, Shavonda Sumter and Annette Quijano sponsored to encourage lawmakers to consider the impact proposed legislation would have on racial and ethnic minorities was approved by the full Senate, 34-0, on Thursday.
Assembly Passes Bill To Ensure Fair Wages For Home Health Aides
WILLINGBORO — For 16 hours a day, seven days a week, 3-year-old Crista Jackson has a nurse by her side.
Crista was born almost three months premature with chronic lung disease, making it difficult for her to breathe and speak. Her nurses from Bayada Home Health Care in Mount Laurel help her use a tracheostomy and ventilator for her breathing and take her to regular speech and chest physical therapy appointments.
'Bill Of Rights' Gives Victims Of Sexual Assault A Voice
The state's rape crisis network logs an estimated 10,000 calls every year from survivors of sexual violence. Yet reports of fewer than 1,400 rapes made it onto police blotters in 2015.