BY TOM HESTER SR.
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
In the midst of attempting to overcome a total state deficit of $13.1 billion for the concluding 2009 and impending 2010 state budgets, the Corzine administration Tuesday had to put another $120 million toward jobless benefits. Over 8 of every 100 New Jerseyans who want to work are jobless.
The governor and his aides describe the state's financial crisis as "historic'' and "the worst ever.''
Peter Mazzei, the chief librarian of the state non-partisan Office of Legislative Services library, who for the past decade has tracked the history of the state government to its founding in 1776, concedes the current fiscal situation is ugly, no doubt about it.
