Rutgers Forecast: New Jersey Economy Adds 56,000 Jobs, Will Hit 2008 Employment Peak in Early 2017

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May 6, 2016

“This was the state’s best performance since 2000,” said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON). “We should recover the balance by early 2017, and by the end of the forecast period in 2026, the employment base should be 370,000 jobs, or 9 percent greater than at its 2008 peak of 4.09 million jobs.”

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