Locals discuss challenges of persuading young adults to stay in North Jersey

December 3, 2015

One of the biggest challenges faced by North Jersey communities is holding onto its young adults. According to a report by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, people in their 20s and early 30s are opting to leave suburbs for “higher-density, non-suburban activity environments and do not, in general, find suburban employment and [the] one-dimensional insular office campus particularly attractive.”

NorthJersey.com, December 3

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