Editor’s Note: Pet Projects, Public Cash from NJ Spotlight News details how New Jersey lawmakers direct millions to projects, often with little public scrutiny over how that money is spent. Today’s stories focus on how much lawmakers themselves tuck into state budget...
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NJ’s fiscal future: A direction for the new governor
The fiscal future of New Jersey is bleak. New Jersey has struggled to balance its budget for two decades. In the early 1990s, the state was AAA by each Rating Agency. Over the last eight years, it was reduced seven times – it is now the second lowest. Some...
'Unpleasant but necessary' actions NJ's next governor may need to tackle
A philanthropic group called The Fund for New Jersey wants candidates running for governor and Legislature, as well as the public at large, to know just what they getting into. The first in its Crossroads NJ reports is an election-year downer on fixing the Garden...
Extensive and Expensive: Coming to Terms with NJ's Fiscal Challenges
Taken together, the fiscal policy changes proposed in the report could produce “somewhere in the area of about $5 billion” in annual revenue, said fund trustee Henry Coleman, who is a professor at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy...
New Rutgers report sources tax revenues, aid in New Jersey
A new Rutgers Regional Report, “Fiscal Flows in New Jersey: A Spatial Analysis of Major State Taxes and State Aid Programs,” authored by Joseph J. Seneca, university professor and economist at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
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