Jon Shure, the leading voice for liberal causes in New Jersey, is leaving Trenton and heading to a Washington policy organization.
Shure, the founding president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, is moving on to become deputy director of the state fiscal project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. He leaves Feb. 27. The center focuses on state and federal fiscal policies that affect people with low and moderate incomes.
In Jersey, Shure was press secretary for former Gov. Jim Florio. At NJPP Shure was often and advocate for higher or broader taxes in order to fund programs for the needy. He railed against tax cuts for businesses while pushing worker-friendly plans such as paid family leave and increasing the minimum wage - usually in highly quotable ways. When fiscal conservatives wanted to damn a plan as over-reachingly liberal, they invoked Shure's name.
Policy Perspective's research director, Mary Forsberg, will take over as interim director after Shure departs.
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