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1. Why are so many small business owners having a hard time securing loans?
(Money/Economy)

...  According to the SBA Office of Advocacy's Research and Statistics, firms with fewer than 500 employees: -represent 99 percent of all employer firms and provide jobs for over half of the nation's ...

2. N.J. traffic deaths on pace to end 4-year decline
(N.J./State)

... motor vehicle fatalities and marked the lowest number of recorded traffic deaths in the state since the 1940s. However, 2011 year-to-date state fatality statistics are more dismal in contrast. “The ...

3. Remembering the great stock market crash of 1929
(Money/Economy)

... To quote Prof. Robert Sobel of Amherst, “The bare statistics taken by themselves seem to indicate a mixed to poor year for stocks, but not one that wa disastrous.” True, the market had been down 48 percent ...

4. Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk set for this weekend in Sea Girt
(Life/Style)

... prevention resources to the high school’s staff as they helped distraught students cope. The national statistics for suicide are staggering. According to the AFSP, a life is lost every 16 minutes to ...

5. National Coffee Day 2011: Starbucks not with others
(Life/Style)

... magnate Starbucks, according to the Washington Post. Coffee-statistics.com informs us that the U.S. is the number-one coffee-consuming country in the world. We drink over 400 million cups of coffee every ...

6. Protect all student athletes from concussions
(Health/Healthquest)

... occurred in high school sports. The statistics are frightening, and all the more reason to applaud the recent announcement by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and Rep. Bill Pascrell that the CDC have agreed ...

7. 'Moneyball' is more than a sports movie
(Opinion/Commentary)

... "Moneyball," turned to Paul DePodesta, a young man with a degree in economics from Harvard and a laptop computer that crunched numbers and analyzed statistics about the players available in baseball’s ...

8. In complete agreement
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Coach Hurley use Basketball as a way to rescue kids from the Jersey streets. Most of those kids are talented basketball players but not necessarily NBA quality. Take a look at the statistics and you ...

9. Use Common Sense
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

I'm a big supporter of charter schools because - despite all of the tricky math and fabricated statistics used by their detractors - they just work better where it matters. You can't tell me that a student ...

10. Monmouth Girls Academy, all-girl Catholic high school, is a possibility
(N.J./State)

... located in Monmouth County but will be based the feasibility study results. Statistics about All Girls Schools Girls who attend single-sex schools outscore their co-ed counterparts on the SAT by ...

11. Studies show exercise each day can keep the cancer away
(Health/Healthquest)

... leads to better weight control, which is absolutely essential not just in preventing cancer, but also other illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes. Look at the statistics from National Cancer Institute, ...

12. Electronic medical records save money
(Health/Healthquest)

... path. Care will certainly have to be rationed. We might not like it, but with statistics like this, what is the alternative? What do we mean by “rationed health care?” My cousin lives in the ...

13. Congressman Bill Pascrell: Politics is not reality TV
(U.S./Nation)

... which is borne out by the statistics.” A chart given to reporters shows the greatest job losses occurred in 2009, and also shows that as Obama’s first year progressed, fewer jobs were being lost until ...

14. We are failing our unemployed veterans
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and Iraq, we are seeing extremely high numbers of unemployment and homelessness among our returning veterans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts unemployment for veterans ages 18 to 24 at over 21% — ...

15. Direct shipping of wine
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... homes, no more than 24 cases of wine and each case may not exceed 9 liters. According to statistics collected from New York State, direct shipping represented less than one percent of total wine sales ...

16. Missing a Bigger Point
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... the safety of our children more than I, but where are the statistics to prove the data referenced regarding danger posed to them through direct shipping? We have pharmaceuticals shipped to homes which ...

17. Direct Shipping
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... to statistics collected from New York State taxation officials, direct shipping only represented less than one per cent of total wine sales for the entire state in 2007 and 2008. So, what are the NJ wine ...

18. Study slams Newark Liberty International Airport
(N.J./State)

... to a new study. The New Jersey hub had 40 of the 100 most frequently delayed flights in the nation last year, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The findings, reported ...

19. New Jersey front seat belt use hits all-time high
(N.J./State)

... few holdouts refusing to comply with the law, they would immediately buckle up.” A town-by-town breakdown of the citations issued during the “Click It or Ticket” campaign and related statistics may be ...

20. New Jersey solar energy installations reached record numbers in June
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of commercial and industrial solar projects." Jeff Tittel, New Jersey Sierra Club director, is unimpressed with the solar energy statistics offered by the DEP. “While the Christie administration is ...