On banking business in pandemic: ‘We really have had to find ways to make sure that our customers know that they are still top of mind — that they are still our top priority’
Tom Bracken, the CEO of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, has been a frequent critic of Gov. Phil Murphy’s economic policies.
On Wednesday, he said he found an ally.
When the annual corporate funding for the New Jersey chapter of the Jobs for America’s Graduates program started to wane because of COVID-19, Withum CEO and Managing Partner Bill Hagaman stepped up — reaching out to his colleagues with the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and imploring them to find funding for the program.
In a move that will be good for racial equity and opportunity throughout the country — and figures to have a lot of benefits for New Jersey, too — African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey head John Harmon was named to the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
New Jersey is lowering the number of people allowed to gather both indoors and outdoors to fight the surging second wave of COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday morning, after the state set back-to-back record days for new coronavirus cases over the weekend.
Improving diversity at companies of all sizes has never been of higher priority. Diverse businesses are shown to be more profitable, more innovative and better places to work.
Longtime friends Tom Bracken and John Harmon conducted a Zoom call Monday morning to discuss how the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey are partnering on an initiative in 2021 that will serve as a rallying cry to end economic inequities in New Jersey.
Tom Bracken said the obvious about the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket winning the 2020 presidential election: “More than anything, I think it just calms things down a little bit. And that’s not a bad thing.”
EDA launches PPE Access Program connected to designated vendors to ensure equipment is available — and at a reduced cost