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NJBIA testified on Tuesday in support of a bill that would strengthen manufacturing career pathways at county colleges and county vo-tech schools, create fellowships to support entrepreneurs in STEM fields, and provide $10 million in grants to higher education institutions to expand manufacturing curricula. NJBIA Vice President of Government Affairs Christopher Emigholz told the Senate […]
NJBIA is rallying business owners in support of a bill on the Governor’s desk, which could help improve New Jersey’s regulatory climate by creating a Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review (GEARR) Commission to identify state regulations that unduly burden businesses and stifle economic growth. New Jersey business owners are asked to email Gov. Phil Murphy […]
Legislation that aims to tackle the high cost to business of overregulation and government red tape is now on Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk, and NJBIA is urging him to sign it. The Senate on Feb. 19 gave final approval to A-4810/S-441 (Pinkin/Huttle/Murphy/Oroho/Sarlo), which would establish the Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review (GEARR) Commission to identify inefficiencies and overly burdensome regulations that hurt businesses and stifle […]
Manufacturing employees, who state officials have classified as essential since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, need to also be given priority when the state announces which groups of New Jersey residents are next eligible to receive the vaccine. That was the message from Michael Womack of the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program (NJMEP) during the New Jersey Business Coalition’s recent virtual town […]
President Joe Biden signed an executive order late Monday that aims to support domestic manufacturing by directing federal agencies to strengthen requirements for purchasing products and services provided by U.S. workers and businesses. The executive order calls for increasing the amount of U.S. content that must be in a product for it to be considered made in America under existing “Buy American” requirements. It also creates a website […]
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