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Preliminary numbers show that after no change in June, the unemployment rate in New Jersey ticked down two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.7% in July, according to information released by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development on Thursday.

It was the 18th consecutive month of jobs gains in New Jersey, though the third smallest monthly increase in that year and a half.

Amy Wagner, of Ocean City, a parent of two teens who has been helping them with working papers since 2017, says the state’s current law is among the most restrictive in the country, out-of-date and very cumbersome.

Employers in New Jersey added 17,800 jobs in March, helping push the state’s unemployment rate down by 0.4 percentage points to 4.2%.

The look back over the past 15 years finds New Jersey’s finances were the most out-of-balance in the nation in that period, according to the state’s audited Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.

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A charter airline company that plans to use Atlantic City International Airport as a base of operations is interested in hiring 15 to 20 more flight attendant trainees from South Jersey.

“It will get worse before it gets better because kids who go to college are going to start peeling off to go to college in a couple weeks,” Gov. Murphy said.

The lack of workers is basically slowing down our reopening and now we expect some of the extra work to fall on teenagers? Are you kidding me?

At the rate jobs have been added so far in 2021, it would take until the end of 2023 to recover pandemic-era losses. But things might speed up going forward.