New Jersey has its own set of problems. James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, said more people are leaving the state than ever before. Hughes compared that statistic to a “balance of payments.”
Between 2010 and 2015, New Jersey lost 269,000 people to other states, putting it third highest in the nation for domestic “out-migration behind Illinois and New York, which was first.”