New Jersey firms with less than five employees added 18,266 jobs in 2009 and 2010, while firms with headcounts between five and 499 employees shed 145,816 jobs during those years, and large companies cut 108,681 positions.

New Jersey retailers previously pressed for a state solution to the sales tax loophole for their online-only competitors, but that effort stopped when the Christie administration cut a deal with Amazon.com to collect the sales tax.

Gov. Chris Christie today issued a letter to Kathleen Sebilieus, the secretary of health and human services, declaring New Jersey will opt to have a federally run health insurance exchange, instead of a partnership with the federal government.

In response to an increasingly competitive market, law firms have pulled back on entry-level hiring for the fourth consecutive year, while summer associate employment remains far off pre-recession highs with a similarly bleak future ahead, according to a report by the National Association for Law Placement.

The celebrated pageant will return to Atlantic City in 2014, according to the governor's office, and it's hoped Miss America will bring a $30 million economic impact when she comes back to the Boardwalk.

A U.S. District judge is hearing arguments today on the constitutionality of a federal law that limits sports betting to four states.

When President Barack Obama declared in his State of the Union speech that “Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing,” his words resonated with manufacturing advocates in New Jersey.

An entrepreneurial group of New Jersey Institute of Technology undergraduate students is one step closer to patenting and marketing painless needle technology after securing $6,000 in seed capital by winning two recent contests sponsored by Capital One Bank.