SBN News Director Steve Lubetkin has an exclusive conversation with Jersey City attorney Jessica Gonzalez, who the New Jersey Business Action Center (NJBAC) has selected as its consultant to develop and launch the NJBAC Cannabis Technical Assistance Program and Training Academy.
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In this audio news report, SBN correspondent Steve Lubetkin speaks with participants in a gathering of New Jersey labor, environmental, health and advocacy groups at the State House Thursday to demand that Governor Phil Murphy keep a years-old commitment to end raids on the Clean Energy Fund to pay for other state budget priorities.
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A new study found progress made to reduce child poverty over the past 25 years in the U.S. is at risk of stalling or being reversed. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health philanthropy organization, has released a study showing child poverty is on the rise after falling by 59% between 1993 and 2019.
Big-box stores and warehouses have billions of square feet on their roofs that could be covered with solar panels. Rutgers University professor David Hughes has some ideas for how to do that.
Businesses and consumers are breathing a sigh of relief that a nationwide freight rail strike appears to have been avoided. SBN News Director Steve Lubetkin discussed the rail dispute with Peter Swan, Ph.D., associate professor of logistics and operations management, at Penn State University’s Harrisburg campus.
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SBN’s exclusive interview with Spring-Nuts founder Howie Chaz about this weekend’s Seaside Serenade that will bring hundreds of die-hard Bruce Springsteen fans to Asbury Park once again for three days of festivities.
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GLASSBORO, NJ (SBN) — More than 250 executives and leaders from South Jersey nonprofit service organizations spent a half day last week learning how to…
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HARRISBURG, PA (SBN) — As new House and Senate maps are finalized in Pennsylvania’s once-a-decade redistricting process, a Commonwealth Court judge is advising the state…
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A new Economic Policy Institute report suggests that states should tap billions in unspent COVID relief funds to make long-overdue investments in the education workforce. SBN Correspondent Steve Lubetkin has more in this audio news report.
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New report reveals New Jersey tobacco control successes over past 20 years, and outlines path to end tobacco use and save lives TRENTON, NJ (SBN) – New Jersey earned mostly failing grades for failing to…
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