Between 2009 and 2011, all income increases went to New Jersey’s top 1 percent of earners, according to a 2014 study headed by Norman J. Glickman, a professor at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. In the fifth-most expensive U.S. state to live in, 34 percent of households “cannot meet the bare costs of life, let alone middle-class life,” the report found.
Bhuyan: Congress must extend the ACA subsidies or expect a crisis in N.J.
View original post on NJ.com, November 9, 2025 By Shamik Bhat and Soumitra S. Bhuyan As Washington grinds through the longest shutdown in history, New Jersey families are monitoring an upcoming crisis at home: upcoming expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act...