The Jobs and Economic Opportunity Council, made up mostly of administration officials, is to help identify federal, foundational and philanthropic funds.
There was a time when an 18-year-old was expected to move out, become independent, and pay his own bills. In this day and age, that's rarely an option.
After a decade in which New Jersey’s economy grew at only around one-fifth the national pace, Summit-based McKinsey & Company is suggesting ways to keep up.
A new survey from Wells Fargo and Gallup finds small business owners in New Jersey and across the country are more optimistic now than they have been since early in 2008.
U.S. employers slowed their hiring in August after two blockbuster months and barely raised their workers' pay, a pullback that may lead the Federal Reserve to leave interest rates alone until late this year.
A surprisingly lackluster economy last quarter served as a reminder of how choppy the pace of growth has been since the Great Recession ended seven years ago. Businesses pared their stockpiling and investment through the spring. But consumers -- the heart of the U.S. economy -- kept spending.
Americans spent more money at retailers and factories revved up production in June, offering encouraging signs of the U.S. economy's resilience in the face of global headwinds.