Money from parking fees, dining and housing, conferences and events, and athletics has all evaporated because of bans on large gatherings, shifts to remote working and virtual learning, and widespread physical distancing has kept the majority of students and university staff off-campus.
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NJ to fully fund pension for first time in decades
Gov. Phil Murphy’s $45 billion spending plan calls for $6.4 billion in payments to the pension system, the full amount actuarially recommended for the state, and the first time it would be allocated for in full since 1996.
Read More »No new taxes, better state finances. What’s in Murphy’s $45B budget (UPDATED)
With the state’s coffers flush with cash and avoiding some of the dire financial straits that state officials predicted a year ago as the pandemic began to take hold, the governor presented a spending plan without proposed tax or fee increases.
Read More »Murphy budget avoids NJ Transit increases
The governor's plan does not raise the cost of rides. Instead, the statewide commuter agency will rely on raids from its capital project funds and a clean energy fund.
Read More »Expanded middle class tax benefits proposed in budget
State officials estimate 760,000 New Jersey families could benefit from the new break which stems from an agreement on the millionaire’s tax brokered last summer by Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, D-19th District.
Read More »Murphy proposes budget with major spending for economic incentives (UPDATED)
The governor wants to give $50 million more toward a “Main Street recovery” financing program to help mom and pop shops. Administration officials expect a litany of other programs to start having an impact on the state’s finances as soon as the 2022 fiscal year begins.
Read More »Murphy budget expects few funds from cannabis market over next year
Revenue for the near future will comprise mainly of licensing fees for an industry that is facing a myriad of hurdles in building facilities and growing industrial quantities of product.
Read More »Murphy budget to include up to $150M to businesses for COVID recovery
Businesses are in store for some economic assistance as the governor will lay out a new spending plan with ways to help them bounce back from the pandemic.
Read More »Sports, entertainment venues allowed 10% indoor, 15% outdoor capacity March 1
“This is a day toward which our entire staff has been planning, working and looking forward to for the past 11 months. Those who enter the building will feel confident that our process and protocols are focused on making their safety the number one priority," said New Jersey Devils President Jake Reynolds.
Read More »With minutes before deadline, Murphy signs bills legalizing cannabis
After three years of back and forth discussions, the governor signed a trio of laws making good on his campaign promise.
Read More »Biden unveils PPP changes to target small businesses, minority-owned firms
Sole proprietors, independent contractors and self-employed individuals, applicants with non-fraud felony convictions or arrests in the past year, those who are delinquent on their student loans, and non-citizen business owners - like green card holders - can now take part in the program.
Read More »$100M fund aimed to Black, Brown-owned COVID-hit businesses
A program expanded to eight of the state's poorest cities will be aimed at helping to keep Black and Brown-owned businesses they say have been left out of federal COVID-relief programs afloat.
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