asbury park press front page friday, march 25 2016
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8/19/2019 Asbury Park Press front page Friday, March 25 2016
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New Jersey’s job market last yearmade it back to square one. It recoveredthe 257,900 jobs that it lost in the GreatRecession. Its unemployment ratedropped to 4.3 percent, back to where itwas in 2007. And Gov. Chris Christietook a bow.
So why are so many so glum?“I worked at a company for 18 years,” said Edward
Kertesz, 54, of Woodbridge, who lost his finance job
last August. “You work your (tail) off, you do a realgood job, what does the company turn around and do?They outsource our whole department to another com-pany.”
New Jersey’s job market recovered from thedepths of the Great Recession, adding both high- andlow-paying jobs in 2015, even in sectors that had strug-gled mightily to gain ground. Its struggling financialactivities industry added 8,300 jobs. Its struggling
construction industry added 6,300 jobs. Even its strug-gling manufacturing industry stopped a long slide and
“New Jersey’s not in great shape. To me, you can’t claim
success right now because there’s a lot more for us to do.
Until we get, year after year, the kind of growth we looked at
in 2015, I don’t think we can claim victory.”
TOM BRACKEN PRESIDENT OF THE NEW JERSEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
JOBS RISEAND FALL
New Jersey’s unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest levelsince August 2007. So why are so many workers unhappy?
See JOBS, Page 4A
ROCKOF AGESFormer Def Leppard and
Stone Temple
Pilots members
form new band.
jerseyalive!
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FRIDAY 03.25.16
VOLUME137
NUMBER 73
SINCE 1879
ADVICE JERSEY ALIVE
CLASSIFIED 4D
COMICS JERSEY ALIVE
LOCAL 3A
MOVIES JERSEY ALIVE
OBITUARIES 11A
OPINION 14A
SPORTS 1C
WEATHER 8C
YOUR MONEY 10A
Comedian Garry Shandling,of ‘Larry Sanders’ fame, dies
at age 66. STORY, 6B
JACKSON – From the top of the Nitro roller coaster
400 feet in the air, Six Flags Great Adventure visitorsmay soon glimpse a sea of solar panels tucked into apocket of preserved forest.
After nearly a year of protests and outcry from resi-dents and environmentalists, the Planning Board hasgiven Six Flags and KDC Solar LLC its blessing to clear-cut nearly 15,000 trees on an undeveloped piece of parkproperty, where a 21-megawatt solar farm is to be built.
To a Wednesday night crowd of nearly 50 people,many wearing white stickers reading “don’t kill theEarth to save it,” it was a disappointment.
“This gives green energy a black eye. You cannot cutdown a forest for solar panels. That’s the opposite of be-ing green,” said Jeff Tittel, executive director of the Si-erra Club of New Jersey, one of the groups formally ob-
Six Flags’ planfor solar farmgets go-aheadJackson Planning Board OKs proposal
that includes clear-cutting of trees
MIKE DAVIS @BYMIKEDAVIS
THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Six Flags Great Adventure plans to clear-cut trees on thisundeveloped piece of park property to build a solar farm.
See SOLAR, Page 4A
TOMS RIVER – For $146.50 apiece, two formerLakewood High School football players traded the pros-pect of college athletic scholarships for lengthy termsin juvenile lockups for committing a series of armedrobberies in 2014.
Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels on Thurs-day sentenced one of the former football players, Has-san Diawara, now 17, to 12 years in the custody of thestate Juvenile Justice Commission for robbing six peo-ple in four separate holdups in Toms River and Lake-wood in the fall of 2014.
Daniels sentenced former football player Christo-pher Perpignan, now 18, the wheel man for the robberyspree, to six years in the custody of the Juvenile JusticeCommission for his role.
Ex-Lakewood H.S.football playersget prison termsKATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP
See SENTENCES, Page12A
May2015
+15,600
Feb.2016
-8,600
Jan.2016
-15,700
Nov.2015
+9,000
Dec.2015
+12,400
Oct.2015
+19,800
Sept.2015
+3,000
Aug.2015
+2,700
July2015
+4,300
June2015
+3,500
A LOOK AT THE JOBGROWTH IN NEW JERSEY
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MICHAEL L. DIAMOND
IN THE MONEY
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