The price to park in Newark and other cities in New Jersey could be raised to help improve pedestrian access to mass transit, under a bill advanced Thursday.
If the hike in the minimum wage is going to affect property taxes, one of the first places it could show up is in the school budgets approved this spring.
Halfway through fiscal 2019, tax collections are 2.1 percent ahead of their pace from one year earlier. New Jersey's budget counts on 7.5 percent growth.