New Jersey's unemployment rate is down to 9.7 percent. Good news, a slight improvement. Private sector employment is down by 4,400 jobs. But government employment is up by 2,600 jobs. In addition, the job loss figure for September was reduced from losing 12,700 jobs to losing 10,600. That last one [...]
What conclusions can we draw from the fact that 35% of New Jerseyans actually think that the state will get better over the next 10 years?
Are they:
A. Delusional
B. Hopeless Optimists
C. Idealistic Christie Supporters
D. Retiring from state jobs very soon [...] 
Brian McGovern | November 17, 2009
The chart above (courtesy of Gateway Pundit) depicts the average US unemployment rate during the Clinton, Bush and Obama years.
Matt Rooney | November 6, 2009
The stock market crash of 2008 and the lingering economic crisis have stung many investors, and indeed, left many believing they'll have to continue in their jobs (they're the lucky ones) for as long as they can. Little do they realize there are more money-growing options for [...] According to the Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey analysis of the National Election Poll exit poll done by Edison Research, the economy and jobs ranked tops among the issues that determined voters' decision today.
The economy and jobs was named by 33% and property taxes by 27%. They were followed by corruption' [...]
The 0bama administration has claimed over 600,000 jobs have been saved or created thanks to the breathtakingly amazing plan hatched by the brightest and the best that 0bama has amassed in his administration. The plan in a nutshell: save the ecomony by borrowing trillions of dollars and throwing the cash [...]
New Jersey has registered annual losses of private sector jobs four times in the last nine years -- 2001, 2002, 2008 and 2009.
In those nine years, the state registered public sector job losses one time -- this year, as the state is down by 10,000 government jobs through the first [...]
President Obama came to Farleigh Dickinson University to try to help Corzine get re-elected and to protect the Democrats nationally because a failure here will reflect on Obama. But ironically, the event caused a long-planned Career Fair to be canceled. So while Corzine was contending he [...]
The number of jobs in New Jersey reached its lowest level in 10 years in September, at 3,917,700.
Private-sector employment shrank by 12,000 in September, following two months of gains that had ended 17 months of losses. Also, the private-sector gains from August were slashed by one-third, from 2,900 to 1,900. [...]
