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NJ.com. By Donald Norcross

...I've spent my life fighting for good pay for workers, and spent years working as an electrician installing and restoring power for New Jersey homes, businesses and industrial sites. Raising wages for hardworking families is the first issue I talked to the governor and the new team in Trenton about.

Star-Ledger Opinion Editorial.
By Donald Norcross

The best social program is a good job with fair wages and the dignity that comes with it.

Last week, Governor Murphy reiterated that raising the state minimum wage to $15 an hour is one of his top three legislative priorities this year, and I not only applaud his strong stance, but urge my friends in the state legislature and my colleagues in Congress to heed our shared call to raise wages.

Courier Post.

...Rep. Donald Norcross called Trump's comments "wrong" and "shameful."

..."I support the unanimous conclusion of America's intelligence community that Russia hacked the 2016 U.S. presidential election," Norcross, a Democrat from Camden, said on Twitter. "This is not a partisan issue, we must treat it as a serious national security breach & take action to protect the very fabric of our democracy.

Patch. By Anthony Bellano

...After two weeks, Rep. Donald Norcross (D-1) finally had the chance to tour a Camden facility that currently houses immigrant children who are being separated from their parents at the border on Monday.

...He called the Trump Administration's policy of separating children from their families "an embarrassment and a policy that needs to be changed."

Burlington County Times. By David Levinsky

..."What I saw today when I visited was a home ... It was not a warehouse," Norcross, D-1st of Camden, said during an afternoon news conference with the leaders of the Center for Family Services, the social services nonprofit that is caring for the children.

VOA News. By Arya Hodjat.

...Representative Donald Norcross, a New Jersey Democrat and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, attacked the court's claim that the Abood decision violated workers' First Amendment rights, and called the Janus decision a "dangerous precedent."

..."If you applied this decision outside the scope of public unions, government would cease to function," Norcross said. "How many people would stop paying their taxes if we said the First Amendment allowed it?"

NJ.com. By Jonathan D. Salant

...Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st Dist., said he was told by the Department of Health and Human Services that there was a two-week waiting period before he would be allowed to visit the children cared for by the Center for Family Services, a social services agency based in Camden.

..."The public's representative has a right to visit these children and make sure they are being treated well and that efforts are being made to reunify them with their families," Norcross said.

Courier Post. By Phaedra Trethan

...U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross called this "a moment in U.S. history when we have to reflect on who we are and what we stand for."

...Though he has "utmost faith in Center for Family Services," the South Jersey agency housing some migrant children and a widely respected nonprofit, Norcross added that it is still his responsibility as an elected official to verify those children are safe and well cared for.