| February Thu, 2018
State of the Garden State: Parents Offer Ringing Endorsement of Public School System But Believe Standardized Testing Has Gone Overboard
The vast majority of parents who currently have children in the state’s public school system are highly satisfied with the quality of education their child receives: 80 percent say their child’s school is doing an “excellent” or “good” job.
| February Mon, 2018
State of the Garden State: New Jerseyans Upset With NJ Economic Conditions and Taxes; Still positive about NJ But Less So Than In The Past Three In Ten Say They Would Like To Move Out of State
New Jerseyans are in a malaise these days when it comes to the Garden State: they are angry about the state’s economic climate, and even though they still rate the state positively as a place to live, they are mostly pessimistic about the direction the state is headed.
| February Thu, 2018
The 2018 State of the Garden State Series
As a new administration takes shape in Trenton, where does the Garden State stand on some of the most important policy issues and areas in New Jersey? The 2018 State of the Garden State Series aims to find out. Click on a title below to read each report.
| January Tue, 2018
Data Point: 2018, A Year of the Woman Like 1992?
1992 has long been labeled the “Year of the Woman,” a nod to the record numbers of women who ran and won that year, particularly at the congressional level. What factors contributed to the unusual nature of 1992? Are those factors in evidence today?