New Jersey Policy Perspective produces independent research and analysis on policy solutions to advance social, economic, and racial justice. From data-driven reports to policy briefs and explainers, we work to provide lawmakers, legislative staff, advocates, community leaders, and reporters with the facts and figures behind the most pressing policy issues facing the Garden State.

Explainer

Proposed Tax Package Would Dig New Jersey’s Hole Much Deeper

June 29, 2016 • Jon Whiten • Tax and Budget
Proposal would cost the state about $17 billion over the next 10 years as the price for finally enacting a gas tax increase for essential transportation capital funding over the next 8 years.
Blog

Shorter-Term TTF Plan + Much Larger Tax Cut = Bad News for New Jersey’s Future

June 28, 2016 • Gordon MacInnes • Tax and Budget
This bill will have far-reaching negative effects on the state's ability to pay for essential services, contractual obligations and key investments.
Video

NJPP’s Gordon MacInnes Weighs in Against So-Called ‘Tax Fairness’ Proposal

June 24, 2016 • NJPP Staff • Tax and Budget
Dueling Senate and Assembly committees worked against the clock to get a complex cluster of tax hikes and tax cuts to Christie’s desk before time runs out.
Blog

Crucial Cash Assistance Improvements for Struggling Families Move Forward

June 23, 2016 • NJPP Staff • Economic Justice
Never in the last three decades have we gotten this close to actually doing something about the alarming problem of deep child poverty in New Jersey.
Blog

Estate Tax Elimination Would Put New Jersey Out of Step with Most of Our Neighbors

June 21, 2016 • Sheila Reynertson • Tax and Budget
Instead of raising the threshold to help relieve “smaller estates,” lawmakers seem determined to give away the farm - making New Jersey an outlier in the most damaging way.
Explainer

Time For Affordability

June 16, 2016 • Raymond Castro • Health
Surprise out-of-network medical bills contribute to New Jersey's health care affordability problem. It's time for reform.
Video

NJPP’s Sheila Reynertson Busts the ‘Tax Flight’ Myth

June 14, 2016 • NJPP Staff
"People are fleeing the Garden State and they’re taking all their wealth with them. Or, are they?"
Blog

Tying Transportation Funding Fix to Estate Tax Elimination is Reckless

June 10, 2016 • Gordon MacInnes • Tax and Budget
At a time when New Jersey can’t even meet its constitutional and moral obligations, let alone make investments critical to our future, our legislative leaders are choosing to dig our financial hole even deeper.
Report

The ‘Exodus’ is More Like a Trickle

June 8, 2016 • Sheila Reynertson • Tax and Budget
It’s time to set the record straight about who is moving in and out of New Jersey, why they do and what it means for the state’s wellbeing.
Testimony

‘Combined Reporting’ is a Pragmatic Corporate Tax Reform That Will Help New Jersey

June 6, 2016 • Sheila Reynertson • Tax and Budget
Now is the time to update our corporate tax code and get in line with the 25 other “combined reporting” states, which include every single state in the Northeast.
Blog

Reforming New Jersey’s Subsidy Law: Four Fixes Part of New Legislative Proposal

June 2, 2016 • Jon Whiten • Tax and Budget
Legislation would restore financial integrity to the "net benefits test," ensure fair wages, prevent extra rewards for some known federal tax dodgers and ensure comprehensive review and analysis.
Video

NJPP’s Brandon McKoy Discusses Legalized Marijuana’s Revenue Potential

May 26, 2016 • NJPP Staff • Tax and Budget
When New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform and New Jersey Policy Perspective partnered earlier this week to release a new report on the positive revenue implications of legalizing marijuana in New Jersey, NJTV News was there.
Explainer

In Every County, Very Few New Jerseyans Owe Estate Tax

May 25, 2016 • Sheila Reynertson • Tax and Budget
In 20 of 21 New Jersey counties, fewer than 400 estates are large enough to owe the New Jersey estate tax in any given year.
Blog

Latest BEIP Proposal is Proof New Jersey’s Surge in Corporate Tax Subsidies is Unaffordable

May 19, 2016 • Jon Whiten • Tax and Budget
If policymakers want to offer such lucrative tax breaks to corporations, they should make the hard choices and find the money to pay for them – not merely push the costs off to future policymakers.
Blog

No, New Jersey’s Poorest Aren’t Offered a ‘Very Large’ Package of Benefits

May 18, 2016 • Raymond Castro • Economic Justice
The Department of Human Services Commissioner says families in WorkFirst NJ are offered a ”very large” package of benefits from other programs. But that's just not the case.
Blog

A $15 Minimum Wage is Good Policy for New Jersey’s Working People & its Economy

May 16, 2016 • Brandon McKoy • Economic Justice
The fact that full-time work isn’t enough to lift a New Jerseyan out of poverty should be enough to convince everyone to raise the minimum wage.
Blog

Corporate Subsidies Keep Flowing as New Estimates Confirm They’re Creating a Growing Long-Term Budget Hole

May 13, 2016 • Jon Whiten • Tax and Budget
This surge in subsidies is creating a long-term and growing economic drag that policymakers will have to grapple with for at least the next 15 years as the backlog of tax credits is paid out.
Blog

New National Report Underscores Why New Jersey Needs to Preserve its Estate Tax

May 11, 2016 • Sheila Reynertson • Tax and Budget
Policymakers who are concerned about record levels of inequality and making sound investments that benefit all New Jerseyans should take this report to heart, and preserve the estate tax.
Blog

Increasing the EITC to 40 Percent Would Boost Working Families & Create True ‘Tax Fairness’

May 10, 2016 • Gordon MacInnes • Economic Justice, Tax and Budget
If you want tax fairness, the EITC is the most efficient and effective way to help fix a tax structure that is out of balance.
Blog

Raising the Minimum Wage Would Be a Great Mother’s Day Gift

May 8, 2016 • Amy Dunford • Economic Justice
Stagnant wages have combined with rising costs for housing and other necessities to force more mothers into low-wage work simply to make sure their families have food on the table, a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs.
Report

Earned Sick Leave for All Would Help New Jersey’s Workers & Boost its Economy

April 27, 2016 • Brandon McKoy • Economic Justice
Earned sick days don’t only benefit working people; they help employers too. By investing in their workers, business owners reap the benefits of a more productive workforce and with lower employee turnover that is both expensive and disruptive.
Blog

Tax Breaks or Bust: New Jersey’s Misguided Approach to Economic Development in Camden

April 26, 2016 • Jon Whiten • Economic Justice, Tax and Budget
There are no guarantees that this strategy will actually work to significantly boost Camden's economy or help its residents.
Blog

Price Hikes Weren’t on the Menu After Seattle Passed $15 Minimum Wage Law

April 21, 2016 • Brandon McKoy • Economic Justice
A newly released study by the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance found “little or no evidence of price increases in Seattle relative to the surrounding area.”
Blog

Reality Check: David Tepper’s Move Will Hardly ‘Destroy’ New Jersey’s Budget

April 13, 2016 • Jon Whiten • Tax and Budget
The modest but important impact that Tepper’s move will have on New Jersey’s budget is being used by opponents of a common sense tax structure as an example of why the state should move away from taxes being based largely on the ability to pay.
Blog

Join Us: Immigration Policy Briefing, April 25 in Trenton

April 12, 2016 • Carly Rothman Siditsky
Denying drivers' licenses to undocumented residents makes everyone less safe. Other states have faced the facts on this issue, while New Jersey lags behind. We invite you to join our own experts and a panel of distinguished guests for a special briefing on on this road safety and social justice issue - and the prospects for progress in New Jersey. 

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