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David Levinsky. The Burlington County Times
The US House of Representatives' Bipartisan Heroin Task Force kicked off the new year on Wednesday by unveiling an expanded agenda that includes several new measures and a push for increased funding to help get a grip on the country's deadly opioid addiction crisis...
Pensions and Investments. Hazel Bradford
Legislation creating a new hybrid multiemployer retirement plan design was unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill...
...House co-sponsors Phil Roe, T-Tenn,. and Donald Norcross, D-N,j,, are putting the finishing touches on a bill they said could be introduced within the next few weeks...
The Courier Post. By Phaedra Trethan
OAKLYN -- They gathered around the table at The Square Meal in Oaklyn to talk about...well, whatever they wanted to talk about...
...The cross-section of young professionals included a school teacher, tech entrepreneurs, college students, a stay-at-home moether, community activists and a young married couple. Two were immigrants; at least two said they were children of immigrants. They came from Voorhees and Camden, Somerdale and Collingswood...
...And despite their varie
ROI-NJ. Tom Bergeron
...Norcross loves manufacturing, Loves the idea of working with your hands to solve a problem or create a process to produce results. Always has...
..."Going to school for the reason of going to school is great, but it's about the career, it's the job at the end of that. And to be focused on that is something we want to do, so much so, the laws - many of which we put together, we built on the old model...
PAULSBORO, NJ – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross, N.J. Senate President Steve Sweeney, N.J. Deputy Assembly Speaker John Burzichelli and the Gloucester County Freeholder Board announced that the Port of Paulsboro will receive a $1.58 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) for a water infrastructure improvement project.
The project is expected to create 150 jobs and generate $10 million in private investment.
SNJ Today.
..."Information is power, if you're having a tough time getting a social security check or disability, come on it," said Norcross.
...Norcross says the Constituent Services Fair is one of his favorite events of the year.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) – applauded the final passage of the FY19 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The act raises wages for our men and women in uniform, improves readiness protocols, and boosts modernization and resiliency efforts.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and an electrician by trade, cheered the unanimous, bipartisan, final passage of H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education (CTE) for the 21st Century Act. The bill, which is now heading to the President's desk, included a provision by Norcross that extends the allowable use of funding for career-building programs.
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.