Unemployed workers aren't required to be looking for work during the pandemic – but they must still certify they're ready, willing and available to work.
The labor department would have to assign full-time unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts under a bill responding to continuing frustrations.
An Assembly committee endorsed a package of bills designed to boost New Jersey's alcohol makers, including some with a revenue benefit for cities and towns.
With changes to emphasis innovation, a plan to create the Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission is one vote from legislative approval.
The state Treasury Department announced last week that a diversity study will be conducted. Activists say nothing happened after the last one 15+ years ago.