pension reform

Leaders of the Assembly Republican caucus held a Statehouse press conference Monday to call on Democrats to take action on various reform bills stalled in the legislature. A spokesman for the Assembly Democrats said Republicans are standing in the way of important legislation that is already advancing.

Gov. Chris Christie has vowed not to increase taxes, so in order to close the $807 million hole in the current year's budget, deep spending cuts are very likely.

Gov. Chris Christie is renewing his calls for state lawmakers to enhance pension reforms.

During his latest town hall meeting in Fairfield, Gov. Chris Christie once again called for reforms to the state's pension and health benefit systems.

Legislation that would have given Gov. Chris Christie the power to raise salaries for his cabinet, increased judges' pay and tweaked the public employee pension law to benefit a few elected officials is on hold indefinitely.

Two years after GOP Gov. Chris Christie signed a law requiring public workers to contribute significantly more toward their benefits, 151 lobbyists and insurers remain in the state pension system, their pensions and lifetime health care being subsidized by state taxpayers.

Governor Christie says the bipartisan pension and benefit reforms signed into law last year are already helping Jersey residents.

The State Supreme Court ruled that judges do not have to pay more for the pensions and health benefits.

2011 was anything but boring for the Garden State, and many New Jersey residents can't wait to welcome in 2012. Power outages, protests, battles under the gold dome, scandal; we saw it all. This could probably be a top 100 countdown, but we'll simplify it for you. Here are ...

One way to prepare your kids for the future is to teach them geography.  Someday it'll come in handy when they have to decide where to move when the tax tsunami comes rolling in about 2018. That's when the piper has to be paid for the token pension reform enacted this year...