N.J. workers are only making $2 more an hour than they were 7 years ago

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March 24, 2015

James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said workers’ earnings in New Jersey have been stifled because there were far more people looking for work than there were jobs available.

NJ.com, March 24

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