Privatizing state jobs is one way to plug NJ's budget gap
Governor Chris Christie has created a taskforce to look at ways to privatize jobs to save money as he tries to find to plug a projected $11 billion budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year. Christie signed an executive order Thursday creating the five-person group to look "at every aspect of the way government does business." Christie says privatization could save money, increase effectiveness of the way some services are delivered and narrow the number of services provided by state workers. The task force, former Republican Congressman Dick Zimmer, who is now a Washington lobbyist, has until May 31 to make recommendations to the governor.
Sue Linfante
