Archive of Earlier NJPRI Reports

Archive of Earlier NJPRI Reports

Poverty in the City of Camden, 2007

This second report of the Poverty Benchmarks Project highlights poverty in the City of Camden, New Jersey. The report presents both an overview the city’s poverty and an examination of specific poverty-related challenges in order to understand the positive and transformative impact that state-wide policy changes such as an expansion of the state EITC and an increase in TANF grant levels could have on one of the state’s most distressed cities. The report profiles the city; analyzes the health data, work and employment issues, housing situation, welfare reliance, food and nutrition information, and education statistics; as well as providing concrete policy recommendations. As the Fiscal 2008 State budget is drawn up this report is an attempt to bring attention to its potential impact on the city of Camden.
People Without Lawyers: The Continuing Justice Gap in New Jersey

Brief report analyzing administrative and program data to determine the extent to which low-income New Jerseyans cannot get lawyers for their civil legal problems. The report finds some reduction in levels of unmet need compared with a similar analysis in 2005, but a large civil justice gap remains.
The Critical Shortage of Affordable Housing in New Jersey: A Brief Overview
A Desperate and Widening Divide: The Concurrent Increase in Poverty, Income and Inequality in New Jersey, 2002

“Despite the economic prosperity of the 1990’s, both poverty and income inequality increased during the last decade in New Jersey.” This, according to Kristin Mateo, senior researcher and policy analyst at Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ), is the central finding of a report released on January 28, 2003. A Desperate and Widening Divide: The Concurrent Increase in Poverty, Income, and Inequality in New Jersey is based on an analysis of data from the 1990 and 2000 Census. The report is one of a series of reports by The Poverty Research Institute on the extent and impact of poverty in New Jersey.
Hard Times Amid Prosperity: A Current Profile of Poverty in New Jersey, 2000
How New Jersey's Public Assistance Dollars Are Spent - An Initial Report from Legal Services of New Jersey's Policy Research Institute Budget and Poverty Analysis Project.
Assessing Work First: Challenges Facing Long-Term Welfare Recipients in New Jersey - Report two from the Assessing Work First series, released June 2000.
Assessing Work First: What Happens After Welfare? - Report one from the Assessing Work First series, released June 1999.

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