President Obama has signed off on the plan, but lawmakers in Washington have not approved the 60 billion dollar Sandy aid package for New Jersey and New York yet.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he'll apply greater pressure on Congress if a $60.4 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package isn't approved by the new year.
Gov. Chris Christie told a town hall audience in Belmar that the state still has "big problems and big challenges" to deal with seven weeks after Hurricane Sandy.
New Jersey's unemployment rate dipped by a one-tenth of a percentage point in November to 9.6 percent. It was the third straight monthly decline after having climbed to as high as 9.9 percent.
State Attorney General JeffreyChiesa and the State Division of Consumer Affairs have filed suit against five more hotel operators and one more gas station, alleging that each excessively raised prices during the declared state of emergency for Hurricane Sandy and illegally gouged consumers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that data gathered before Superstorm Sandy shows that New Jersey's coastal flood risk is worse than previously believed.
A Bipartisan bill designed to save taxpayer money by pooling resources county-wide to conduct property assessments has been approved by an Assembly panel. The sponsors feel that the legislation is particularly timely in the wake of super-storm Sandy as hard-hit towns struggle with the burden of conducting massive numbers of reassessments on properties that were destroyed or severely damaged.
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Senate Democrats have quickly cobbled together a $60.4 billion disaster aid package for New York, New Jersey and other states hit by Superstorm Sandy in late October.