Foundation Academies Students Graduate From NJM Insurance Group Program

Foundation Academies students graduate from NJM Insurance Group program

NJM Insurance Group and the Boys & Girls Club of Mercer County celebrated the graduation of Foundation Academies students from the Workplace Mentoring Program at a ceremony held this week in Trenton. Five graduating seniors completed the multi-year mentoring initiative, which provides career-readiness experiences including job exploration, interview preparation, resume and portfolio development, and workplace skills training. These students will…

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NJ local government health care system in trouble

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Local government workers’ health plan enters ‘death spiral’

Sharp premium increases and waning enrollment have put the local government part of the State Health Benefits Program on a path to the grave. (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor)New Jersey’s health benefits plan for local public workers, harried by years of sharp premium increases and a dwindling subscriber pool, has become “structurally unstable” and “financially unsustainable,” the Treasury said in a report released Tuesday. The purely inform…

NJEA on health insurance report: Stop putting corporate profits over working people’s health - New Jersey Education Association

NJEA’s officers, President Sean Spiller, Vice President Steve Beatty and Secretary-Treasurer Petal Robertson released this statement regarding the misleading and irresponsible report issued by the Department of Treasury regarding the condition of the State Health Benefit Program for Local Government (SHBP-LG): “The NJEA members we represent are not part of the SHBP-LG, but we are all too familiar with the impulse of some people in power to attac…