In the three years since the state took control of the failing Camden school district, graduation rates have risen from less than half to 70 ...
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In her first year as the head of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, Debra Vizzi just finished a Feeding America report and talks about ...
This is one statistic going in the wrong direction: driving deaths on the rise. What to do about it? Testimony at the Bridgegate trial. Why ...
The New Executive Director of APN, Renee Koubiadi, grew up in Camden living in poverty.
With hundreds of road repairs screeching to a stop the senate president says he and Christie can solve the Transportation Trust Fund crisis. But Christie's ...
The new Senate session began with lawmakers looking over legislation Gov. Christie pocket vetoed.
The Senate's in session. Set to tackle bills Christie's already vetoed. And then some. But just how much can they accomplish with Christie out of ...
Four Assembly committees spent the day discussing ways to reduce poverty in New Jersey.
With money and time running out Atlantic City's making a deal. It could mean tough cuts, suspended labor contracts and privatized services. Everything's on the ...
Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto is ordering four Assembly committees to start brainstorming ways to end poverty in New Jersey.
Legal Services of New Jersey reports 2.8 million adults and 800,000 children lived in poverty in 2014, about a third of all New Jersey households.
Legalizing marijuana in the Garden State. Experts assert a pot crop could pump cash into state coffers. Even though no opponents were heard from, the ...
The CDC says not smoking in public housing could save New Jersey $2.6 million in healthcare costs — $1.6 million in apartment renovation expenses and ...
A push to ban smoking in public housing. The CDC finds adults uninsured or on Medicaid smoke at rates more than double those with private ...
Sports betting, fantasy or otherwise, has Congress members urging the FTC to keep it fraud-free. They're setting the stage to legalize sports gambling, then regulate ...
The Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey held it's annual summit on the hardships of poverty.
Turning up the heat on a proposed deep water port off shore that would pump Liquefied Natural Gas from boats in the harbor to New ...
The APN is encouraging all state legislators and Assembly candidates to sign a pledge recognizing that poverty is a problem in New Jersey. By signing ...
The Penn East Pipeline Protest came to Trenton and battle lines have formed along the Delaware Valley where a billion cubic feet of natural gas ...
New Census data reveals Cumberland County with the highest ratings of poverty throughout the state, followed by Passaic and Hudson Counties.