| March Fri, 2019
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“It seems counterintuitive that legislators are holding back when recent reports show that 60 percent of New Jersey residents support recreational marijuana use, according to a recent Rutgers-Eagleton poll.”
| March Fri, 2019
TV shows like ‘Scandal’ and ‘Madam Secretary’ may spur people to become more politically engaged
“The Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers-New Brunswick, highlighted several key milestones that have galvanized women in recent years, which kicked off with Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful run for the White House in 2016…”
| March Fri, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand is making paid family leave a defining issue in her 2020 run
“‘In 2016, you saw Hillary Clinton bring it to the forefront as a major policy platform issue, as a standard item in her stump speech. And then you saw Bernie Sanders do the same thing,’ says Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science and scholar at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics.”
| March Thu, 2019
This mom is pushing to use campaign funds for child care. It could help parents around the country.
“Louisiana became one of about eight states to definitively allow the use of campaign funds for child care, according to Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.”