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"As of October 2024, the most recent data available at this writing, New Jersey has the sixth highest unemployment rate in the nation (4.7%). To be clear, 4.7% unemployment is lower than any month ..."

"The economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic were often contradictory. Unemployment reached record levels, but workers quickly gained unprecedented power in the labor market. Many Americans ..."

"New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows higher enrollment in New Jersey’s colleges and universities in Spring 2024 than the prior year, but overall enrollment remains ..."

"The employment landscape and labor market in New Jersey has changed relatively little over the past 12 months, but one sector has played an outsized role in driving the state’s employment ..."

"Industries throughout the American economy are reporting shortages of highly skilled and properly trained workers. Even for the most critical of these industries, challenges in maintaining a ..."

"With GDP figures for Q4 2023 released, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has issued its comprehensive report. Most significantly, all 50 states enjoyed positive GDP numbers in the final quarter of ..."

"A recent analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that college graduates who majored in an engineering field outearned all other graduates in 2022. Chemical engineers lead the ..."

"Institutions of higher education in America finally got some reprieve from declining enrollment this fall, new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows, but New Jersey ..."

"Although New Jersey enjoyed a strong 2022 overall in terms of GDP growth, the final quarterly figures released for the year (Q4 2022) and the first set for 2023 (Q1 2023) pointed to potential changes ..."

"Following the supply chain disruptions of 2020 and 2021, no subject seemed to achieve such universal agreement as the importance of domestic manufacturing. Since then, states and the federal ..."