Cores' campaign website highlights the following issues:

• Expanding early childhood education is a core issue to assist working class families in New Jersey. Families are often forced to choose between having a second income used to pay solely for the cost of child care and/or pre-school or having one parent stay at home. This affects all aspects of the economy, but more importantly may lead to children being less prepared for Kindergarten. With the amount of money we are spending on State taxes and real estate taxes, we can afford to expand pre-school programs to all children.

• In New Jersey we need to invest in renewable energy. We currently face two major proposals for traditional energy sources that are opposed by the citizens. The first is the proposed power lines in the Middletown, NJ area. The second is the natural gas pipeline. When these utility monopolies receive the bulk of the subsidies and have the bulk of the politicians in their pockets, we need to elect people who are focused on the future. And the future is renewable energy.

• Within the last ten years, total student debt in our economy has more than doubled and now exceeds $1.2 trillion. Nationally, nearly 7 out of every 10 new graduates of four-year colleges are in debt, and these indebted graduates carry an average balance of nearly $30,000. New Jersey's class of 2015 graduated with an average of almost $19,000 in debt. Student debt has surpassed credit card debt, car loan debt, and home equity lines of credit to be the second largest source of consumer debt.
• And this is not just an issue for borrowers: It is holding our economy back. This debt prevents people from forming families, buying homes, and starting small businesses. It sends the wrong signal to future students whom we need to complete college to drive economic growth.
• Right now we cannot look to the federal government to tackle the reform of the back breaking educational costs in this country. We need our state representatives to do what we can at the state level.

• Our fine Universities, Princeton and Rutgers, along with other State colleges, take those brilliant HS children and teach helps them reach their goals. This is why a company like Johnson & Johnson has made NJ home since 1896, spurning off entrepreneurs who have fueled innovation in every generation.
• To keep us moving in the right direction, I will propose a NJ standard tax deduction for small businesses and start up ventures—like the one available to individual filers, along with special tax incentives for the building of NJ technology centers and renewable energy companies. We envision building rental spaces for shared office, laboratory, manufacturing and shipping facilities. These tech centers will create communities of entrepreneurs, at various stages of corporate growth, working together to bring jobs and financial opportunity to NJ.