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1. New Jersey's unemployment picture improves slightly
(Money/Economy)

... 9.8 percent as 3,700 people found jobs, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The national jobless rate for the month was 9.7 percent. But the employment gains in the private sector ...

2. Verizon opens new high tech and green facility in Livingston
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, is a Dow 30 company, employing a diverse workforce of nearly 222,900. In 2009, the mega-communications giant generated more ...

3. ‘Drive’: You might be surprised at what really motivates us at work
(Money/Economy)

... between what science knows and what business leaders know about how to motivate a workforce. Pink says most businesses operate today on the carrot-and-stick system of rewards and punishments. Employees ...

4. Steve Lonegan: New Jersey’s defined benefit pension plan must be phased out
(Opinion/Commentary)

... even if every annual contribution had been made the last seven years, the system would still be unfunded to the tune of $29 billion. With a massive growth in the state's workforce, increased benefits ...

5. Chris Christie on N.J.’s budget crisis, bringing an NBA team to Newark
(N.J./State)

... Executive Order 17 which creates a task force to develop a comprehensive approach to workforce privatization, the New Jersey Nets, and much more. To listen to the audio of the interview click HERE. FULL ...

6. New Jersey still struggling with unemployment
(Money/Economy)

... Labor and Workforce Development, 24,000 more than originally reported. And despite reductions by the state government, 3,100 jobs cut, and federal, 1,200 jobs cut, 11,300 people found joined the ...

7. New Jersey State PBA feeling the heat in Trenton
(Opinion/Commentary)

... change the face and the worthiness of our jobs into the future and into retirement. The entire state, county and local workforce have become the targets of the taxpayers aggression and our self-serving ...

8. N.J. taking a big step backwards in retaining doctors
(Health/Healthquest)

... Jersey physician workforce than projected in the 2009 New Jersey Physician Workforce Report, the landmark report which demonstrated New Jersey is facing significant future shortages in both primary care ...

9. Princeton’s Thomas Espenshade takes on affirmative action and the racial achievement gap
(Life/Style)

... in this country. And it has implications for the quality of the U.S. workforce and the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. Although our book is about higher education, so many of the dimensions of inequality ...

10. New Jersey and U.S. jobs picture looking grim in latest unemployment report
(Money/Economy)

... though, states registered wide variances in joblessness. In North Dakota, only 4.3 percent of the workforce was listed as unemployed, contrasting with 13.6 percent in Michigan. A closer look at the February ...

11. Bill declares half of N.J.’s 566 towns already meet affordable housing obligations
(N.J./State)

... 10 percent. It also allows for 50 percent of the affordable housing component to be so-called workforce housing — a term state officials have come to use instead of low- or moderate-income housing — ...

12. Equal Pay in the workplace
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... work full-time with overtime when the wife departs from the workforce, nearly always at a time of her choosing. Men's unappreciated willingness to support their wives is the underlying real reason for ...

13. CWA LEADERSHIP LISTENS TO NO ONE
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

The FDU poll proves what I have said for the last couple of years. The State workforce is a lot smarter and much more aware of current affairs then the out of touch,self serving union leadership. A ...

14. NJ Transit announces internal cuts, spending freeze to help fill budget gap
(N.J./State)

Will reduce workforce by two percent NJ Transit Tuesday implemented an emergency spending freeze and told employees that it will reduce its workforce by more than 200, rollback spending on retirement ...

15. Da'Lynn White of Mays Landing gets 5 years in prison for stealing $4,000 from state
(N.J./State)

... White admitted that between March 15 and June 19, 2005, she fraudulently collected $4,357 from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development by submitting false disability claim forms. White ...

16. Christie's plan to cut jobless benefits, taxes for employers, criticized by labor, praised by business
(Money/Economy)

... by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development, corporations have received four unemployment tax cuts since 1998, with savings to corporations ranging from $250 million to $450 million - per ...

17. Christie plan to cut N.J. unemployment benefits ‘a nonstarter’
(Money/Economy)

... on people fired for misconduct. The action would come with New Jersey in the midst of the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression and with nearly 10 percent of the workforce jobless. The ...

18. Poll: New Jersey’s favorite presidents
(N.J./State)

... the state's youngest adults age 18 to 34, Clinton is tops with 28 percent, followed by Reagan with 19 percent, and Obama with 14 percent. The poll also asked New Jerseyans in the workforce whether they ...

19. Legislation to reform affordable housing in New Jersery is a positive first step
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and workforce housing. Towns would meet this obligation in inclusionary developments or off-site through rehabilitation, buy-down programs, group homes, special needs housing and so on. There have been ...

20. New Jersey’s great expectations of Chris Christie
(Opinion/Commentary)

... workforce reduced but only 40 percent would be okay with layoffs. That means any state payroll reduction will have to come through attrition or buyouts — something the public won't like. Finally, slightly ...