N.J. governor signs law requiring paid employee sick leave
New Jersey becomes the 10th state to enact sick-leave legislation. Under the law, employers are required to provide one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
New Jersey
New Jersey spans dense urban corridors, farmland, and 130 miles of Atlantic coastline — making it one of the most ecologically and socially complex states in the U.S. This archive collects progress stories from across the Garden State, covering environmental protection, public health, community investment, and civic innovation.
Albert Schatz isolates streptomycin, the first antibiotic cure for tuberculosis
Streptomycin was isolated on October 19, 1943, in a Rutgers University basement lab, where 23-year-old PhD student Albert Schatz pulled it from a soil microbe called Streptomyces griseus. It became the first antibiotic that could kill tuberculosis, a disease ancient enough to appear in Egyptian mummies and, until then, essentially untreatable.