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5 days ago · Trump pressures three senators vying to be U.S. Senate GOP leader BY: Jennifer Shutt - November 11, 2024 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is making demands of the next Senate Republican leader ahead of a closed-door election this week, writing on social media that whoever is chosen should recess the chamber early next year so he can appoint whoever he wants without having to go ...
Sentencing panel targets mandatory minimums and geriatric parole
1 day ago · A state commission is urging state lawmakers to pass stalled legislation that would reduce the prison population in New Jersey by ending mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders and giving elderly, long-incarcerated people a path to release, among other things. The New Jersey ...
Attorney general denies post-election criticism was directed at ...
1 day ago · One day after Attorney General Matthew Platkin took aim at New Jersey politicians for creating and enabling “a system of corruption,” Platkin denied that his comments were politically motivated or part of an effort to distance himself from the …
Repairs along key rail corridor will require service disruptions ...
1 day ago · Amtrak owns tracks and other infrastructure used by NJ Transit trains on the Northeast Corridor, the busiest commuter rail line on the continent, and the state transportation agency pays roughly $200 million a year to Amtrak to …
Gov. Murphy signs bill tweaking senior citizen tax cut program
Nov 1, 2024 · Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Friday making a series of technical changes to three state tax relief programs.. The bill seeks to align Stay NJ — a tax credit program that promises to cut seniors’ tax bills in half, to an indexing cap of $6,500, beginning in 2026 — with the senior freeze and Anchor property tax rebate programs.
New Jersey spends $90M a year to imprison parole violators, …
Oct 11, 2024 · About 1,200 people in New Jersey prisons on any given day are parolees who got hauled back to prison — not for committing new crimes, but for missing curfew, relapsing in their addiction, not checking in with their parole officer, or breaking other conditions of their parole.
New Jersey minimum wage will rise to $15.49 on Jan. 1
Oct 8, 2024 · New Jersey’s minimum wage will rise to $15.49 for most workers at the start of the new year, state labor officials announced Tuesday. The 36-cent increase is the first annual inflation adjustment to the state’s wage floor following a six-year phase-in that was meant to bring the minimum wage to $15, though high inflation in 2023 spurred an indexing adjustment that brought minimum hourly ...
Lawmakers say capping rental application fees could help …
Sep 30, 2024 · Lawmakers are weighing new limits for rental application fees in what they say is a bid to address the ever-increasing cost of housing. A bill that would prohibit landlords from charging application fees greater than the cost of a credit check and limit the cost of rental property applications to $50 advanced out of the Senate …
Undocumented immigrants in N.J. pay $1.3B in state and local …
Jul 30, 2024 · New Jersey is one of six states where undocumented immigrants contribute more than $1 billion in state and local taxes, according to a new study intended to quantify how much undocumented immigrants pay in taxes nationally. The study from left-leaning think tank Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy notes that more than a third of the taxes paid by undocumented immigrants go toward funding ...