A new Monmouth University Poll shows 73% of New Jerseyans support the governor's recent policies regarding a return for outdoor businesses and gatherings, and 60% for indoor businesses.

The proposal, which has bipartisan support, would create an 11-member commission to look at how other states send aid to universities and the needs of institutes of higher education in New Jersey, and develop further legislation based on its recommendations.

Companies are turning their attention toward a duo of Biden-era COVID-relief programs: one for restaurants and another for theaters and other live performance venues.

As the governor gears up for a reelection campaign against the presumptive Republican nominee, former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, a Monmouth University Poll found that 43% of respondents felt that someone else should be in the office.

The directive made it easier for companies like Uber and Lyft to classify workers as independent contractors, and made it more difficult for workers at app-based companies to be counted as employees under federal law, exempting them from minimum wage and overtime laws.

The Future of Work Accelerator will aim to identify ongoing and proposed efforts to improve job quality and economic security, provide connections to critical resources, and prepare companies to launch or scale up.

The VAXRIDE promotion offers residents up to two free round trips to their appointments as the state aims to fully vaccinate 4.7 million adults by June 30.

Data jointly compiled by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and New Jersey Business Action Center show exports to New Jersey from Israel increased 11.5%, according to the commission, with trade volume hitting $1 billion in 2020 for the first time since 2014.

“Some of it’s in the fed's hands and some of it is in our hands," the governor said. "The 6-foot distance is still very much out there, we do have capacity restrictions on the inside, at a catered event, at large-seated venues.”

Under a program done in coordination with the Brewers Guild of New Jersey, adults over 21 years of age can take their COVID-19 vaccination proof to any of the state's participating breweries for a free pint.

Masks will still be required, but restaurants, museums, movie theaters, retail outlets and other businesses will be allowed to operate at full capacity, as long as they can maintain 6-foot social distancing. For many enterprises with smaller square-footage, full capacity could be unlikely.

The president's $1.9 trillion infrastructure plan has been characterized as the largest federal economic intervention since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal nearly a century ago, and could be what the nation needs to kick-start the post-COVID economy recovery.