The governor said the numbers represented "a good start and it’s going to get better, it needs to get better.”

Similar proposals gained traction over the summer, after the Department of Labor and Workforce Development revealed that New Jersey businesses would have to pay $252 million starting in October to replenish the state’s unemployment fund - the first of three such increases.

“By taking these steps to exclude farmland from being classified as a redevelopment area or rehabilitation area, we are ensuring the protection of these vital spaces and preventing further warehouse sprawl, which will help keep New Jersey green for decades to come,” said outgoing Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a sponsor of the legislation.

The state Labor Department is offering several return-to-work assistance programs, such as help with job searches, resume-writing, interviewing skills, and education and training.

The latest proposal would provide credits for wages that certain small businesses paid to employees to keep them on board over the course of the public health emergency.

By participating in online survey, community members will help inform projects designed to revitalize and rejuvenate the area located in and around the capitol's State, Broad, Front and Warren corridors.

Philip Sellinger is currently co-managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Florham Park office, a position he's held since 2002 after spending 18 years at Sills Cummis & Gross in Newark.

In February 2019, an F&A school bus driver transporting 12 special-needs children in Newark crashed the vehicle into the wall of a building, and had allegedly overdosed on heroin at the time. Police had to revive the driver using Narcan.

Seven awards were doled out for the program at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's last board meeting of 2021. The initiative has picked up some of the tab for 30 productions in the state since its reintroduction in 2018.

Officials set a deadline of Jan. 5 to apply for SBA funds, which are only available to companies, homeowners and renters in Bergen, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset and Union counties.

The measures are designed to help businesses recoup the costs of complying with pandemic restrictions and to encourage investments in small and mid-size companies.

A lame duck proposal that would prohibit the state from mandating that commercial and residential properties make the switch from oil and natural gas was approved by a Senate committee on Dec. 6.