By Hal Wirths _ The House of Representatives recently passed a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. The Raise the Wage Act is similar to New Jersey’s law, increasing the tipped wage and wages for Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey’s minimum wage is higher effective today, Save Jerseyans. Effective July 1, 2019, employers must pay their employees $10 per hour (instead of $8.85) consistent with a series of planned planned increases enacted back in February. Read More
By Art Gallagher _ Governor Phil Murphy and his team apparently failed to account for the impact on the minimum wage increase he signed into law earlier this year will have on his own State Budget. Senator Declan O’Scanlon called Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark wants to implement a “universal basic income” experiment in the Brick City, one which would be de facto paid for by the suburbs due to his city’s extremely high percentage of state Read More
By Matt Rooney _ It failed spectacularly in Finland and Canada. It fails everywhere it’s tried. Newark, New Jersey is ready to give ‘universal basic income’ a go all the same, Save Jerseyans, and you’ll be footing the bill. _ Mayor Read More
TRENTON, N.J. — The left-wing mob is firmly in control of Trenton. No single policy better “success” better illustrates this new hegemony than the recently-enacted $15 minimum wage hike will be phased-in starting this July. One New Jersey legislator says Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – And we’re not even talking about Ocasio-Cortez’s the ‘Green New Deal’ which even many Democrats think is a bridge too far. The Democrats in Washington, D.C. are presently pushing what they’ve named the Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 582 & S. Read More
By The Staff _ New Jersey’s minimum wage is set to hit $15 (and then higher) by 2024. Congressional Democrats are pushing their own national $15 minimum wage scheme. _ What about the human toll? For small businesses on Mainstreet, Read More
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Governor Phil Murphy’s decision to sign a $15 minimum wage hike bill on Monday isn’t only going to impact New Jersey’s private sector bottom line; local municipal and county leaders are bracing for dramatic, potentially budget-busting payroll expense Read More
