STATE OF NEW JERSEY EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
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Designating the second Monday in May as Economic Development Day will encourage our state's business leaders to focus on creating an ideal environment in which our business community can flourish.”
Proclamation
WHEREAS, New Jersey would experience significant benefits from coalescing government and economic development programs and uniting private-sector economic stimulus; and
WHEREAS, the State of New Jersey can foster innovation in the State's economy by funding and investing in business owners in New Jersey to promote, stimulate and grow small businesses; and
WHEREAS, the strength of New Jersey's economy is rooted in the State's highly educated and work-ready employee base, its resourceful inventors, its dynamic entrepreneurs and its spirited small business owners; and
WHEREAS, those strengths are themselves the product of strong investment in New Jersey's schools and New Jersey's distinguished network of colleges and universities; and
WHEREAS, New Jersey is located in the heart of one of the world's most affluent and concentrated consumer markets; and
WHEREAS, New Jersey's geographic location, within 500 miles of nearly 40 percent of the population of the United States, its multimodal transportation assets, including major road, rail, port and airport assets, and its unparalleled human capital, positions New Jersey to pursue robust economic growth for decades to come; and
WHEREAS, coordinated and strategic economic development efforts will increase State revenue and improve the long-term fiscal health of the State of New Jersey;
NOW, THEREFORE, I Philip D. Murphy, Governor of the State of New Jersey, do hereby proclaim:
MAY 13, 2024 AS NEW JERSEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DAY
in New Jersey.
GIVEN, under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, this twenty-ninth day of February in the year two thousand twenty-four, the two hundred forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States.
GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY
We're looking forward to it, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce!