The state is awarding a $109 million tax break to the fintech under NJ Emerge to renovate and open a 428,000-square-foot, four-story office site in Berkeley Heights.

Under the agreement, the firm would keep or create a combined 3,000 new jobs at a Berkeley Heights office and spend $105 million to “improve and relocate to a mostly vacant office building” in the Union County suburb.

The report from Stockton University's William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy marks the incumbent governor's narrowest lead over his Republican challenger, thus far.

The governor and his GOP challenger exchanged barbs over the incumbent's handling of the pandemic, his response to Tropical Storm Ida, LGBTQ rights and law enforcement policies.

Unsafe conditions ranged from a lack of adequate equipment for roof repairs, to inadequate safety gear for demolitions and tree removals, according to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The New Jersey Innovation Institute in Newark and Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship in Union won as part of the Growth Accelerator Fund Competition program track, which included entries from accelerators and incubators proposing targeted assistance to STEM and R&D entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups, including women, people of color, rural areas and veteran entrepreneurs.

New Jersey Policy Perspective's leader for the last seven years will join CBPP as vice president of state partnerships to provide strategic support to think tanks across 41 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

The candidates will square off for a full hour beginning at 7 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. A second debate between the two is scheduled for Oct. 12 at Rowan University in Glassboro.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development-run Return & Earn program will, according to the governor, “assist unemployed workers in their return to work” and “help small businesses fill the positions they need to fill to grow, thrive.”

Steven Sandberg, press secretary for the New Jersey senator since 2013 and communications director during his reelection campaign in 2018, comes on board at the Meadowlands firm as senior vice president of public affairs.

Business owners and executives may have to grapple with a new hiring reality, given that the expiration of supplemental unemployment benefits apparently has not changed the way individuals are looking for work. Businesses in industries such as retail, dining, leisure and hospitality are still facing labor shortages, a phenomenon that could undermine the economic recovery.