Culture of New Jersey - Economy

Economy

See also: New Jersey locations by per capita income

The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that New Jersey's gross state product in 2010 was $487 billion. As of January 2012, the state's unemployment rate is 9%. New Jersey's estimated taxpayer burden in 2011 was $37,000 per taxpayer, 49th in the nation.

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Famous quotes containing the word economy:

    “The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)