- 2020-09-08
- ROI-NJ
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce head Tom Bracken and New Jersey Business & Industry Association leader Michele Siekerka led a group of other business leaders on a Zoom media call to discuss Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposed nine-month budget for 2020-21.
They weren’t happy.
- 2020-09-04
- NJ Spotlight Op-ed
As the summer of COVID-19 comes to a hollow end for many beleaguered businesses, Gov. Phil Murphy is proposing a $40.1 billion budget that simply does not reflect the stark reality of our times.
- 2020-09-03
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce congratulates our state’s public school teachers, administrators and support staffs after a report published in Education Week yesterday ranked our public schools number one in the nation for the second year in a row.
- 2020-08-31
The reopening of indoor dining, movie theaters and indoor entertainment venues is a positive step for the New Jersey economy and the employees in these industries. While we believe it would have been desirable to reopen these businesses sooner, it is time to move forward. Everyone should continue to comply with the medical guidelines outlined by Gov. Murphy and health officials so more businesses can reopen or ramp up to their pre-COVID levels, thus achieving full Phase 3 implementation, and putting more of our citizens back to work.
Now that more and more businesses are opening, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce urges all businesses and consumers in this state to “Buy NJ” and patronize New Jersey businesses when and where possible.
- 2020-08-31
- ROI-NJ
Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday morning on Twitter that New Jersey restaurants can resume indoor dining this Friday, Sept. 4, at 25% capacity.
- 2020-08-25
The Governor’s budget address this morning was both confusing and disappointing. We have a severe economic crisis and the Governor’s proposed budget would make it worse.
In the new reality of the COVID-19 economic shutdown, most businesses in this state have had to rethink their futures and make difficult and sometimes painful decisions. This is an opportune time for state government to do the same thing and rethink what it does.
- 2020-08-24
- NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
A powerful Senate committee on Monday unanimously paved the way to seat the first Black woman on New Jersey’s highest court.
- 2020-08-19
- ROI-NJ
Tom Bracken loves the New Jersey Department of Health’s guidelines for reopening schools, the ones that use risk levels within six regions in the state to determine where — and how — it’s safe to reopen.
Bracken — and others — would love to see them used for the business community.
- 2020-08-18
Tom Bracken, president and CEO of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, and Michele Siekerka, president and CEO of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, issued the following statement today regarding a regional approach to reopening New Jersey businesses.
“It appears that deferring to industry experts and local officials for COVID-19 reopening decisions is the proper process, except when it comes to the reopening of our businesses.
- 2020-08-11
The N.J. Chamber of Commerce was one of 100 business and nonprofit groups – the New Jersey Business Coalition – that signed a letter to Gov. Murphy calling for the state to accelerate the pace of the state's economic 'reopening' and break New Jersey out of its “unnecessary and extenuated pause mode.” The letter, sent to the governor this morning, states: “Our current data, compared to most states, justifies a much stronger pace of reopening, but we are lagging, due mainly to a reliance on spiking numbers in other states, as well as a brief spike in New Jersey’s numbers resulting from social gatherings.” For full letter, click here.