The 64% who said they were optimistic represents a decline from 72% who said the same in 2021, but the comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic shaped a lot of that.
The cost for everything seems to be going up. Every day you are seeing friends and family members post on social media that it’s taking an extraordinary amount of money to fill up their gas tank.
The idea of "street vending," as in the traditional trucks one might think of on the street corners of New York or Los Angeles, is fading away at least in the Garden State, where business practically shuts down from November through March.