TRENTON–The Assembly Higher Education Committee approved a bill sponsored by its chair, Assemblywoman Celeste Riley, and Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski that would create a task force charged with studying different ways to help make college more affordable for New Jersey students.
TRENTON – An Assembly panel released a Democrat-sponsored bill that would prohibits terms and conditions in a consumer contract that require the dispute be resolved in a venue, forum or jurisdiction outside of New Jersey.
NEWARK – A New Brunswick man was sentenced Friday to 48 months in prison for his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Walmart just reported shrinking sales for a third straight quarter. What’s going on? Explained William S. Simon, the CEO of Walmart, referring to the company’s customers, “their income is going down while food costs are not. Gas and energy prices, while they’re abating, I think they’re still eating up a big piece of the customer’s budget.”
STATE – Average retail gasoline prices in New Jersey have risen 6.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.13 per gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,525 gas outlets in New Jersey. This compares with the national average that has increased 1.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.21 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
I’m usually in too much of a Thanksgiving food coma to hit the sales on Black Friday, but millions of other Americans somehow find the energy. Last year, 89 million people took advantage of Black Friday sales (57 million of them online), while an estimated 247 million shopped throughout the four-day weekend, as stores increasingly have opened their doors on Thanksgiving itself.
STATE – New Jersey’s middle class continues to shrink since the beginning of the Great Recession, while the number of wealthy and very poor households increased, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.
(via NJ Spotlight) A Senate committee has unanimously passed a revised version of the Economic Opportunity Act, just two months after Gov. Chris Christie signed into law the sweeping overhaul of the state’s system of awarding business subsidies.
(via NJ Spotlight) The options that New Jersey residents who buy their own insurance will have next year may have expanded yesterday, when President Barack Obama announced that current individual health plans wouldn’t have to meet new federal regulations in 2014.
Democrats are showing once again they have the backbones of banana slugs.
The Affordable Care Act was meant to hold insurers to a higher standards. So it stands to reason that some insurers will have to cancel their lousy sub-standard policies.
