>Newark Star-Ledger supports public worker job cuts
For the first time since World War II, the U.S. economy gained no jobs for the month of August. Zero.
Here in New Jersey, since Gov. Christie took office, state agencies and local New Jersey governments have lost about 30,000 jobs. But the Newark Star-Ledger believes that readjustment had to happen.
The Ledger reports that between December 2000 and December 2007, New Jersey’s private sector added a mere 7,700 jobs, while the public sector gained 60,000.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine began shrinking state government and benefits, and Christie signed reforms that contained salaries and benefits locally for most public employees.
The director of Rutgers Economic Advisery Service says the state’s economy is being held back by job losses in the public sector. According to NorthJersey.com, James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick, said state finances can’t improve until public sector job losses stop. (Holt, New Jersey Newsroom)
