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FEATURED NJPP REPORT:

A Future for Public Media in New Jersey:
How to Create a New Basis for Public Radio, TV, and Online Media
in One of American Journalism's Worst Covered State

Budget and Fiscal Policy
Mar. 2010 Flunking Out: New Jersey's Support for Higher Education Falls Short (UPDATE)
by Mary E. Forsberg
Jan. 2010 Garden State Dreams: In-State Tuition for Undocumented Kids
by Anastasia R. Mann
Jul. 2009 All That Glitters Isn't Gold - Property Tax Abatements in Jersey City
by Naomi Mueller Bressler and Carolyn Topp
Feb. 2009 New Jesey Snapshots 2009
by New Jersey Policy Perspective
Dec. 2008 NJPP Action Agenda - The Invisible Budget Hides Spending Choices

Nov. 2008 What's the Rush? Costly Tax Changes Need More Deliberation
by Mary E. Forsberg
Apr. 2008 Funding for Business Tax Breaks Shows Skewed Priorities
by Sarah Stecker
Feb. 2008 Gas Tax Talk Leads Down the Right Road
by Mary E. Forsberg
Apr. 2007 Big Firms Get Big Breaks
by Mary E. Forsberg
Jan. 2007 Look Out Below: Steep "Cliff" Means Many Working Poor Lose Tax Credit
by Sarah Stecker
Oct. 2006 If It Ain't Broke...New Jersey's Income Tax Makes Dollars and Sense
by Mary E. Forsberg
Jun. 2006 You're 40; Now Get To Work: Making the State Sales Tax Pull its Weight
by Mary E. Forsberg
May. 2006 Flunking Out: New Jersey's Support for Higher Education Falls Short
by Anastasia R. Mann and Mary E. Forsberg
Feb. 2006 New Jesey Snapshots 2006
by New Jersey Policy Perspective
Dec. 2005 The 800-Page Gorilla: An Advocate's Guide to the Budget
by Mary E. Forsberg
Nov. 2005 Money for Nothing? The Financial Cost of New Jersey's Death Penalty
by Mary E. Forsberg
Aug. 2005 Attention Shoppers: You Pay the Health Insurance Bills For Some of New Jersey's Largest Employers
by Mary E. Forsberg
Mar. 2005 Was It Worth It? Looking Back on a Decade of Income Tax Cuts
by Jon Shure and Mary E. Forsberg
Nov. 2004 Let the Sunshine In: Making New Jersey's Budget More Transparent
by Mary E. Forsberg
Dec. 2003 Taking Care of Business: Does It Cost Too Much?
by Sarah Stecker
Oct. 2003 Spending Trends on Corrections in New Jersey
by Mary E. Forsberg
Sep. 2003 Reflections on the New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission
by Henry A. Coleman
Aug. 2001 Take the Money and Run: How Fiscal Policy from the 90's to Now Threatens New Jersey's Future
by Judith C. Cambria
Democracy and Media
Aug. 2010 A Future for Public Media in New Jersey
by Paul Starr, Scott Weingart and Micah Joselow
Oct. 2009 Less News is Bad News: The Media Crisis and New Jersey's News Deficit
by Scott Weingart
Jul. 2007 How Much is Enough? Drawing the Lines on Multiple Public Job Holding in New Jersey
by Tom O'Neill and Bill Schluter
Jun. 2006 One to a Customer: The Democratic Downsides of Dual Office Holding
by Tom O'Neill
Oct. 2004 Let 'Em In and Get 'Em In: How to Give More People the Right -and the Reason- to Vote
by Frank Askin
Sep. 2004 The People Should Choose Who Fills the Shoes
by Jon Shure
Oct. 2000 Restoring the Right to Vote: Isn't it Time?
by Jon Shure and Rashida MacMurray
Economic Development
Jan. 2010 Garden State Dreams: In-State Tuition for Undocumented Kids
by Anastasia R. Mann
Apr. 2008 Funding for Business Tax Breaks Shows Skewed Priorities
by Sarah Stecker
Jun. 2007 Pay, Or We (Might) Go
by Sarah Stecker and Dan Steinberg
Jul. 2006 Mapping the Route to Dollars: AAA Mid-Atlantic's Four-State Tour
by Sarah Stecker
May. 2006 Flunking Out: New Jersey's Support for Higher Education Falls Short
by Anastasia R. Mann and Mary E. Forsberg
May. 2005 Telcom Giant Dials "M" For Money and New Jersey Picks Up the Charges
by NJPP Staff
Dec. 2003 Taking Care of Business: Does It Cost Too Much?
by Sarah Stecker
Jan. 2003 A Question of Balance: Taxing Business in the 21st Century
by Mary E. Forsberg
May. 2002 Don't Go There: This Business Break is No Bonus for New Jersey's Budget
by Sarah Stecker
May. 2002 The State Of Working New Jersey
by Leslie McCall
Oct. 2001 Single Factor: Double Trouble
by Mary E. Forsberg
Tax Reform
Jul. 2009 All That Glitters Isn't Gold - Property Tax Abatements in Jersey City
by Naomi Mueller Bressler and Carolyn Topp
Dec. 2008 NJPP Action Agenda - The Invisible Budget Hides Spending Choices

Nov. 2008 What's the Rush? Costly Tax Changes Need More Deliberation
by Mary E. Forsberg
Apr. 2007 Big Firms Get Big Breaks
by Mary E. Forsberg
Jan. 2007 Look Out Below: Steep "Cliff" Means Many Working Poor Lose Tax Credit
by Sarah Stecker
Oct. 2006 If It Ain't Broke...New Jersey's Income Tax Makes Dollars and Sense
by Mary E. Forsberg
Jun. 2006 You're 40; Now Get To Work: Making the State Sales Tax Pull its Weight
by Mary E. Forsberg
May. 2006 Flunking Out: New Jersey's Support for Higher Education Falls Short
by Anastasia R. Mann and Mary E. Forsberg
Mar. 2005 Was It Worth It? Looking Back on a Decade of Income Tax Cuts
by Jon Shure and Mary E. Forsberg
Dec. 2004 Free New Jersey: The Burden of Property Tax Exemptions
by Donald A. Krueckeberg
Dec. 2003 Taking Care of Business: Does It Cost Too Much?
by Sarah Stecker
Sep. 2003 Reflections on the New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission
by Henry A. Coleman
Jul. 2003 New Jersey's Income Tax: How Progressive?
by John W. Zerillo
Jan. 2003 Upside Down & Backwards - Taxes in New Jersey
by Jon Shure
Jan. 2003 A Question of Balance: Taxing Business in the 21st Century
by Mary E. Forsberg
Dec. 2002 The 8% Solution: A Plan to Share the Burden of Balancing the Next State Budget
by Jon Shure
Aug. 2002 Half A Leg Up: New Jersey Still Trails in Crucial Help for Working Poor
by Sarah Stecker
Jul. 2002 Fiscal Stress: It's Not Just A Big City Problem
by Henry A. Coleman
May. 2002 Don't Go There: This Business Break is No Bonus for New Jersey's Budget
by Sarah Stecker
Mar. 2002 Perspective on the Gas Tax and Car Registration Fees
by Mary E. Forsberg
Feb. 2002 Burying Inheritance Tax Puts New Jersey In The Hole
by Sarah Stecker
Oct. 2001 Single Factor: Double Trouble
by Mary E. Forsberg
Aug. 2001 Take the Money and Run: How Fiscal Policy from the 90's to Now Threatens New Jersey's Future
by Judith C. Cambria
Apr. 2000 The Earned Income Tax Credit in New Jersey: Beware of the Cliff
by Jon Shure
Jan. 2000 Patchwork Property Tax Relief: How to Make a Bad System Better
by Judith C. Cambria
Transportation Issues
Feb. 2008 Gas Tax Talk Leads Down the Right Road
by Mary E. Forsberg
Mar. 2002 Perspective on the Gas Tax and Car Registration Fees
by Mary E. Forsberg
Jun. 2000 On the Road Again-But to Where? Transportation Proposals Only Delay Day of Reckoning
by Martin E. Robins
Work and Wages
Feb. 2010 Estimated Impact of Health Reform Bills Passed by the House and Senate on New Jersey
by Raymond J. Castro
Oct. 2009 The Right Rx for NJ: National Health Care Reform
by Raymond J. Castro
Apr. 2009 Economy in Crisis: The State of Working New Jersey
by Norman J. Glickman
Sep. 2008 Lost Time, Lost Pay: New Jersey's Minimum Wage Keeps Falling Behind
by The Raise the Wage Campaign
Jun. 2008 The Faces of Immigration in Mercer County
by Anastasia R. Mann
May. 2008 A Step Backward: How Federal Rules Would Deny Health Insurance to New Jersey Children
by Raymond J. Castro
Apr. 2008 Pulling Apart - NJ's income gap grows wider
by Jon Shure
Mar. 2008 Climbing the Ladder: How to Invest in New Jersey's Working Families
by NJPP and Center for Women and Work
May. 2007 Falling Short: Time to Keep the FamilyCare Promise
by Raymond J. Castro
May. 2007 The Adequacy of New Jersey's Minimum Wage
by Jon Shure
Jan. 2007 Look Out Below: Steep "Cliff" Means Many Working Poor Lose Tax Credit
by Sarah Stecker
Jan. 2006 New Jersey Income Gap Widening - Gains of the Richest Far Exceed the Poorest

Aug. 2005 Attention Shoppers: You Pay the Health Insurance Bills For Some of New Jersey's Largest Employers
by Mary E. Forsberg
Nov. 2004 Slip Slidin' Away: $5.15 an Hour Isn't Enough
by Susan J. Bottino
Aug. 2004 Perspective on Offshoring and New Jersey
by Susan J. Bottino
Aug. 2002 Half A Leg Up: New Jersey Still Trails in Crucial Help for Working Poor
by Sarah Stecker
May. 2002 The State Of Working New Jersey
by Leslie McCall
Jul. 2001 Perspective on Family Leave
by Mary E. Forsberg