The effort aims to bolster the organization's applicant reach for its Small Business Emergency Assistance Grant Program funding.

The measure moves to a full Assembly vote later this week, however there are still no hearings scheduled in the state Senate.

“We’re spending a lot of time with the owners and operators as well as the workers and their representatives on casinos,” the governor said on Sunday.

New Jersey's weekly jobless claims are declining, but that may not mean what it seems to mean.

Gov. Phil Murphy said those restrictions will start rolling back beginning the weekend of June 5.

New Jersey faces a revenue shortfall of $10 billion through June 2021, the Murphy administration said, plus hundreds of millions of dollars more to pay for the state’s response to the virus.

“Allowing municipalities the option of extending the grace period for May property tax payments is the right thing to do as many New Jerseyans are impacted financially as a result of this crisis,” he said in a statement then.

The Republican-backed measure has been met with resistance from progressives and labor rights activists, like New Jersey Citizen Action Associate Director Dena Mottola Jaborska who cautioned it would offer blanket immunity and “allow for recklessness on the part of business owners.”

Community Development Financial Institutions work in low-income communities to expand economic opportunity by providing access to financial products and services for local residents and businesses.

“For everybody who says ‘open the thing up tomorrow, let’s turn all the lights on’, you got 365 folks going into the hospital,” Murphy said.

Last week, the state's unemployment rate reached a high of 15.3 percent, but the latest numbers mark “the lowest weekly total since mid-March,” according to the New Jersey Department of Labor.

"During this period our operating volumes have plunged to levels we have not seen before," Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton said at the agency’s live-stream meeting in April.