Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Rise in full-time workers receiving food stamps, By Jere Downs, October 12, 2011, Louisville Courier-Journal: “On her day off from work one recent Friday, Angela Carter stopped at Shively Area...
View ArticleCensus Poverty Data
Poverty rate growing in N.J.’s working-class towns, census data shows, By Stephen Stirling and Eric Sagara, November 3, 2011, Star-Ledger: “Danny Bryant has lived in solidly blue-collar Carteret for...
View ArticleSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Number of N.J. residents receiving food stamps doubled in last four years, By Eric Sagara and Stephen Stirling, November 27, 2011, Star-Ledger: “The number of New Jersey residents receiving food...
View ArticleNewark, NJ Kids Count Report
Newark’s child poverty rate spikes 32 percent in 2009-10, By Jessica Calefati, December 16, 2011, Star-Ledger: “Newark has an unemployment rate nearly twice the national average, and a report on child...
View ArticleChild Care Subsidies – New Jersey
Report: N.J. subsidized child care program hobbled by poor oversight and long waits, By Susan K. Livio, January 25, 2012, Star-Ledger: “New Jersey could be wasting millions of dollars a year on its...
View ArticleState Medicaid Programs
N.J. to disperse $40M in federal Medicaid funding to hospitals, clinics investing in electronic records, By Susan K. Livio, February 9, 2012, Star-Ledger: “The state this week is distributing $40...
View ArticleState Minimum Wage – New Jersey
N.J. considers raising minimum wage, By Joelle Farrell, February 23, 2012, Philadelphia Inquirer: “After hearing tales of hardship from both low-wage workers and struggling businesses on Thursday, a...
View ArticlePoverty and School Funding – New Jersey
Acting N.J. education chief reconsiders using school free-lunch programs to measure poverty, By Jessica Calefati, February 26, 2012, Star-Ledger: “Tucked into an 80-page report on Gov. Chris Christie’s...
View ArticleState Minimum Wages
NY, NJ, CT politicians seek minimum wage increase, Associated Press, March 7, 2012, CBS News: “Legislative leaders from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are pushing a novel, unified approach to...
View ArticlePoverty Rate – New Jersey
Poverty numbers are grim in N.J., By Alfred Lubrano, May 20, 2012, Philadelphia Inquirer: “More New Jersey residents lived in poverty in 2010 than ever before, according to a report released Sunday. A...
View ArticleFoster Care and Kinship Families – New Jersey
N.J. foster children placed in homes with relatives more often than in other states, report says, By Megan DeMarco, May 23, 2012, Star-Ledger: “A higher percentage of children in New Jersey’s foster...
View ArticleCivil Legal Assistance – New Jersey
Report: Greater number of Hudson County’s poor not receiving representation in civil cases, By Daniel Reyes, June 19, 2012, Jersey Journal: “An increasing number of the poor in Hudson County and across...
View ArticleThe Record Series on Poverty in Northern New Jersey
Hardship grows amid wealth: Residents face unexpected need in communities across North Jersey, By Harvy Lipman, June 24, 2012, The Record: “Karen Levi doesn’t think of herself as being poor. After all,...
View ArticlePrisoner Re-entry Program – Newark, NJ
From prison to a paycheck, By Howard Husock, August 3, 2012, Wall Street Journal: “Hector Morales might not seem, at first, to be an American success story. At age 50, he works the graveyard shift-7...
View ArticleFinancial Hardship and the Near Poor – New Jersey
Report: More than one-third of New Jersey households either mired in poverty, or close to it, By Mark Spivey, September 3, 2012, MyCentralJersey.com: “Olivia Maxwell pauses, momentarily puzzled and...
View ArticleMinimum Wage – New Jersey
Minimum wage hike may be decided by NJ voters, By Angela Delli Santi, September 23, 2012, Cherry Hill Courier Post: “The Democrat who leads the New Jersey Senate plans to introduce a measure Monday...
View ArticleSchool Breakfast Programs – New Jersey
Report: NJ makes progress with school breakfasts, By Katie Zezima (AP), October 2, 2012, Long Island Newsday: “The number of low-income children who receive breakfast in New Jersey schools each day has...
View ArticleJuvenile Justice System – New Jersey
Number of minors in N.J. youth detention centers declined significantly, report shows, By Matt Friedman, October 24, 2012, Star-Ledger: “A new report shows that the number of minors in the counties’...
View ArticleStates and Medicaid Expansion
Christie says he’ll take U.S. money to expand Medicaid, By Kate Zernike, February 26, 2013, New York Times: “Gov. Chris Christie, one of the most strident Republican critics of President Obama’s...
View ArticleKids Count Report – New Jersey
Poverty up 20 percent among N.J. children 5 and younger, report says, By Susan K. Livio, May 22, 2013, Star-Ledger: “More than two years after the nation’s deep recession formally ended, a new report...
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