The law increasing New Jersey's minimum wage included $10M in tax credits for hiring workers with disabilities. Another $10M might be added for hiring teens.
From $54 million for direct support professionals to $4 million for local news startups, lawmakers heard an earful of funding requests at a budget hearing.
Assemblyman Roy Freiman, D-Somerset, said his bill serves as a "circuit breaker" that presses pause on escalating increases should employment or revenues take a plunge.
If the hike in the minimum wage is going to affect property taxes, one of the first places it could show up is in the school budgets approved this spring.