State lawmakers are set to approve a $34.8 billion state budget for the 2017 fiscal year Monday. Democrats added around $275 million to Gov. Chris Christie's plan.
New Jersey is boosting spending for the training of future physicians by almost half in the upcoming budget. Problem is: Many of those new doctors leave.
New Jersey: Decoded — Sixteen weeks until New Jersey can't pay its construction bills, the transportation commissioner tells lawmakers: I'm not worried. A solution will be found.
Democrats say they’re uncomfortable about counting on a quarter-billion dollars in savings from not-yet-specified changes to public workers’ health plans.
Private adoption agencies, the courts, and the state would have to maintain a child's religious upbringing when placing a child with a guardian, into foster care, or into an adoptive home under a bill approved by an Assembly panel. The legislation is sponsored by Assembly Democrats Gary Schaer, Pamela Lampitt and Upendra Chivukula.