The pandemic made the shortcomings of New Jersey’s IT infrastructure all too clear. The feds’ American Rescue Plan gives us the funds to rectify this long-standing problem
Lee Keough
With special-interest groups pitching the Murphy administration on how to spend the state’s billions in federal rescue aid, I have a suggestion. Find a way to pay for a “moonshot” program that addresses the state’s woeful IT infrastructure.
State officials used the surprise infusion of $10 billion in cash for the $46 billion 2022 budget, addressing long-standing and well-known issues stifling, high-interest debt; underfunded state-pension program; and school aid. Now they have another $4.2 billion on deck from the American Rescue Plan (plus another $2.2 billion slated for municipalities and counties), a large portion of which has yet to be allocated. Gov. Phil Murphy has invited the many New Jersey special-interest groups to pitch their ideas.
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