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The 'Jersey Gives a Damn' podcast captures conversation with the innovators, leaders, and changemakers making New Jersey's communities stronger.
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- Aug 20, 2026
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Working Hard Yet Still Falling Behind: The Hidden Face of Financial Hardship in NJ (opens the original)
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Imagine working full time — maybe more than full time — and still not being able to cover the basics. No luxuries, no savings. Just housing, food, childcare, healthcare, and transportation. For nearly 40% of New Jersey households, that's not a hypothetical. It's daily life.The problem, in part, is how we measure hardship. The Federal Poverty Level — the number that determines eligibility for food assistance, housing vouchers, and more — was created during the Johnson administration and has never
Through the Gates: The Struggle to Rebuild After Incarceration in New Jersey (opens the original)
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Every year, over 120,000 people are released from New Jersey's state prisons and local jails — into communities often unprepared to receive them and systems that too frequently set them up to fail. Nearly two-thirds will be rearrested within three years. But those numbers don't capture the full story: the near-impossibility of finding housing with a conviction on your record, the employer who won't call back, or the trauma a punishment-focused system was never built to address. In this episode o
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