Tennyson Donyea
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Environmental justice organizations in New Jersey are mobilizing to prevent fossil fuel industries from expanding in low-income neighborhoods, which are disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution.
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Health care premiums could jump more than 20 % for thousands of public employees.
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Pamela Johnson was 22 when she was shot in Jersey City in 1996. Now she's on a mission to make her community safer, and change how officials talk about gun violence.
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New Jersey received more than $6 billion from the American Rescue Plan, and this week, Gov. Murphy will hold two public hearings where people can weigh in on how the remaining $1.4 billion should be spent.
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In vacant lots, urban farmers in the Garden State turn out fresh and healthy food options for their neighborhoods.
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Celeste Fiore, founder of the Trans Affirming Alliance, called a recent federal court ruling that prevents the Department of Education from enforcing rules aimed at protecting trans youth “an attack on our children.”
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Harris voiced support for abortion rights and tighter gun restrictions, and promised to reduce disproportionately high maternal mortality rates for people of color.
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More than three-quarters of New Jersey’s debt comes from non-bonded obligations such as benefits for current and retired state workers.
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New Jersey is one of only two dozen states in the U.S. to require exams to graduate.
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A recent study found that national support for automated traffic cameras increased when participants viewed camera implementation through the lens of racial justice.