More expected to flee New Jersey as baby boomers age

January 15, 2015

People are leaving New Jersey at a rate higher than 47 other states are losing residents. That is just behind New York, which is No. 1 in the dubious category, and Illinois, according to James Hughes, a demographer and dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

 

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