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1. U.S. poverty worsens: Headed for 1960s levels
(Money/Economy)

... and Census figures for 2011 being released in the fall. Economists predict that the official poverty rate will climb to 15.7 percent this year. The Associated Press reported that a .1 percentage ...

2. New Jersey jobless rate saw June spike despite growth
(Money/Economy)

...  Labor officials added the jobless rate jumped nearly a half-percentage point during the period, up from 9.2 percent in May. The national average rose to 8.2 percent. The state Treasury Department's ...

3. Poll: Vice President pick matters with otherwise apathetic voters
(U.S./Nation)

... landlines and cell phones Wednesday through Monday with 1,089 adults of whom 942 said they were registered to vote. The margin of sampling error for voters is plus or minus 3 percentage points. Full ...

4. Is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie a bully?
(N.J./State)

... percentage points.  ...

5. Romney won't select Christie as his running mate
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in jobs - often a full percentage point higher in unemployment than the national average. 6. CNBC reports New Jersey slipped to 41st in business climate under Christie - which wouldn't really do well ...

6. Trickle-down bologna
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

If Christie's plan to cut taxes by the same percentage across the board would boost the economy as you suggest, why have the Bush tax cuts been such a dismal failure? Where is the economic stimulus at ...

7. Small banks make a big impact on small business lending
(Money/Economy)

... increased to 47.5% in June 2012, up two percentage points from 45.5% in May 2012 and up five percentage points from the 42.5.% rate in May 2011. Local and regional banks are making a lot of SBA 7(a) express ...

8. Governor Christie should have pushed his 10% income tax cut
(Opinion/Commentary)

... if someone earned $1 million dollars and paid almost $90,000 per year in state income tax, they would receive a $9,000 tax cut. The bottom line is the tax cut is exactly the same percentage for all New ...

9. NJ students to administrators: Stop dumbing down our schoolwork
(N.J./State)

... enough, specifically fewer than five pages per day in class as well as at home. According to Ulrich Boser, who is co-author of the study and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, that percentage ...

10. More than 25% of teens have 'sexted' and sent nude photos, survey finds
(Life/Style)

... however, the same percentages of boys and girls have sent one. “There is a very strong age effect. The older the person, the more likely,” said Donald Strassberg, a University of Utah psychology professor ...

11. Unemployment drops in states with Republican governors...except New Jersey
(U.S./Nation)

... 0.9 percent, according to the analysis. The breakdown looks like this: Kansas - 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8 percentage points (11.6 percent) Maine - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6 percentage ...

12. Brodeur returning home to N.J. Devils team
(Sports/Professional)

... team Brodeur expressing interest. Devils fans are glad their goaltender, who was 31-21-4 last season with a .908 save percentage, will be back. "It was certainly interesting to go through,” Brodeur ...

13. Good stocks to consider buying now
(Money/Economy)

... not growth stocks, and this demand should continue. Over the next 20 years, the U.S. Census Bureau predicts the percentage of the population older than 65 will double. When interest rates finally go ...

14. Can Americans shoulder Europe's debt crisis with our own?
(Money/Economy)

... was plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.  ...

15. N.Y. Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist wins Vezina Trophy, gets flustered
(Sports/Professional)

... in each of his first seven seasons. He had a 1.97 goals against average and a .930 save percentage. “I’m so happy right now; it means a lot to win,” Lundqvist said, according to Pro Hockey Talk. “To ...

16. N.J. bill may turn foreclosures into affordable housing
(Money/Economy)

... Jersey now has the second-highest percentage of mortgages in foreclosure in the country. In fact, New Jersey 101.5 reported that more than 100,000 homeowners in New Jersey are dealing with foreclosures. ...

17. How restoring the Earned Income Tax Credit would stimulate the economy
(Opinion/Commentary)

... still pay a higher percentage of their income on taxes than the wealthy when all taxes are considered (10.7 percent for the lowest 20 percent income group vs. 7.4 percent for the top 1 percent). ...

18. Small businesses will have big role in 2012 presidential election
(Money/Economy)

BY ROHIT ARORA COMMENTARY According to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll, President Obama leads Mitt Romney by 23 percentage points in New Jersey. If he wants to be competitive in the Garden State ...

19. To Mets fans: Root for the Yanks this weekend
(Sports/Professional)

... percentage. They are also fourth in the league in batting average as they are hitting .263 as a team. So who has the advantage in the series? It’s tough to tell but one area where the Yankees have ...

20. Poll: Voters think Chris Christie is doing right by N.J.
(N.J./State)

... the Garden State is on the rise. The latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, released Tuesday, showed Christie’s job performance and favorability has grown by four percentage points since late March. For the ...