Yesterday, Chairman and CEO Charles Lowrey joined New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and CEOs from eight of New Jersey’s largest companies in pledging to provide jobs and economic opportunity to more than 30,000 residents by 2030 and spend an additional $250 million on procurement with state-based companies by 2025.

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began for most Americans with stay-at-home orders in March, created lots of uncertainty across the country. Six months later, while many workers have largely settled in, new data from Prudential’s latest Pulse of the American Worker Survey reveals emerging undercurrents that employers should pay close attention to as many employees work productively in their remote settings.

Prudential's chief market strategist says positive developments toward a vaccine can offer markets the sort of halo effect that delivers us to the other side of the pandemic.