NJ unemployment rate ticks up to 6.5% as it loses 6400 jobs in March

April 17, 2015

James Hughes, a Rutgers economist, said that the first quarter’s growth pace translates into an annual addition of 34,000 jobs – about the same number as last year.

NorthJersey.com, April 16

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