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A bill supported by NJBIA that would create a $100 million state fund to help childcare centers that are struggling to financially recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was advanced by the Assembly Women and Children Committee earlier this week. The bill, A-5863, sponsored by Assemblywoman Lisa Swain (D-38) and seven other legislators, […]
While it is routine for seasonal workers to collect unemployment while they’re not working, expanded unemployment benefits have led to abuses in the system and labor shortages. “As a volunteer most of my life, I am for helping those in need and clearly COVID has created many of these situations,” Richard Goldstein, owner of Green […]
The agricultural growing season is underway, and New Jersey’s hiring crisis could lead to higher prices for produce because farmers are having to raise wages for students and other part-time workers to combat a labor shortage caused by misguided government policies for unemployment benefits. Kurt Alstede, owner of the 800-acre Alstede Farms in Morris County, […]
Employer tax credits could help solve the state’s hiring crisis because right now employers who are still struggling to recover from the pandemic are forced to pay people more than they can afford in order to fill open positions. That was the message from Debra Kestenbaum, the chief people officer at Wedgewood Pharmacy in Swedesboro, […]
Instead of providing $300 bonuses on top of regular unemployment benefits to people who aren’t working, the federal government should give a subsidy to those who return to work, says one Runnemede childcare operator. “In my almost 20 years of experience, I have never had such a hard time hiring and retaining staff,” Kiddie Academy […]
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