Economic Trends

"ISSUE 2 | March 2022 Previously released in April 2021, Focus NJ's 2020 Economic Review: An Annual Review of New Jersey's Economy has been updated to include revised figures which were preliminary ..."

"As businesses were forced to close and curtail services to stem the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, overall unemployment in New Jersey jumped from 3.8% to 16.6% between March and April. Early ..."

"While far removed from the full-scale lockdowns and business restrictions of 2020, New Jersey’s employment figures continue to signal a sluggish recovery.  Just 65% of the approximately 717,000 ..."

"A year and half into the pandemic, as a sense of normalcy is returning to the Garden State, New Jersey’s employment numbers and unemployment rate are making an unhurried recovery. Employment in ..."

"Focus NJ's Nicole Sandelier and Dan Waldinger, Senior Director of B2B Marketing for Brother USA, discuss the results of their joint Back to Work Survey with NJBIA's Bob Considine on Minding Your ..."

"During the pandemic, most New Jersey businesses experienced a loss in productivity, and are spending an average of $34,000 on new technologies to increase it, according to a new survey conducted by ..."

Focus NJ's Nicole Sandelier discusses 2020 Economic Review with NJBIA's Bob Considine on Minding Your Business.  This show aired on News 12+ on May 15th & 16th, 2021.

"Key statistics that track New Jersey’s economic activity, known as economic indicators, help judge an economy’s overall health. Economic growth (or lack thereof) is measured in various ways, but ..."

"ISSUE 1 | APRIL 2021 2020 was a year unlike any other we’ve experienced during our lifetime. The novel coronavirus pandemic caused havoc on New Jersey’s public health and economy. The pandemic ..."

"From the lowest unemployment rates in recorded history in 2019 to the highest in 2020, New Jersey’s workforce experienced a turbulent year. Forget the Great Recession, economists have compared 2020 ..."