CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: With a noteworthy lineage dating back to World War I, a deployed Army Reserve unit provided praiseworthy sustainment operations on their recent deployment to the Middle East. The 77th Sustainment Brigade (SB) arrived at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait in June, 2019 and is now preparing to head back to Fort Dix, New Jersey. However, their mission accomplishments in the U.S. Central Command's (CENTCOM) area of respons  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following news release: * * * - Area prices up 0.8 percent over the month and 2.5 percent over the year * * * Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), climbed 0.8 percent in January, after inching up 0.1 percent for two consecutive months, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following news release: In 2019, union members accounted for 21.0 percent of wage and salary workers in New York and 15.7 percent in New Jersey, compared with 22.3 and 14.9 percent, respectively, in 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli noted that New York had the second-highest union membership rate in th  more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Air Forces Central Command issued the following news: When it came to deploying scalable forces to reopen an air base in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Air Force knew just who to call: Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Group at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Their short-notice deployment earlier this year enabled the reopening of Prince Sultan Air Base to establish air base operations as part of U.S. Central C  more

NEPTUNE, New Jersey, Feb. 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 11: * * * - Regional Administrator Pete Lopez Makes Announcement at TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. * * * At an event in Neptune, New Jersey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Pete Lopez announced the 2018 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis. Findings from this publicly available report show an increase in recycling of TRI chemical wastes nationw  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: To expedite development of vaccines that protect against the 2019 novel coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will expand an existing partnership with New Jersey-based Janssen Research & Development, part of Johnson & Johnson. Janssen and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authori  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The White House issued the following news release on Feb. 11: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: Alex Nelson Wong of New Jersey, to be Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and as an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assemb  more