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Progressive James Solomon wins big in Jersey City, snapping Jim McGreevey’s comeback bid Solomon replaces Steven Fulop, who has been the mayor for 12 years.

Progressive James Solomon wins big in Jersey City, snapping Jim McGreevey’s comeback bid

Solomon replaces Steven Fulop, who has been the mayor for 12 years.

The $200 Barrier to Justice: Why NJ Must Eliminate Municipal Public Defender Fees - New Jersey Policy Perspective Despite the constitutional right to an attorney, municipal courts charge fees up to $200 for public defenders, pushing low-income residents into debt.

Public defender fees don't generate substantial revenue and wouldn't cost municipalities much to eliminate.

The report recommends eliminating all municipal public defender application fees and ensuring public defense is funded through sustainable public investments.

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The $200 Barrier to Justice: Why NJ Must Eliminate Municipal Public Defender Fees - New Jersey Policy Perspective Despite the constitutional right to an attorney, municipal courts charge fees up to $200 for public defenders, pushing low-income residents into debt.

The report finds that up to 90 percent of New Jersey defendants can't afford attorneys — and Black and Latinx/Hispanic residents are disproportionately harmed.

Municipal fees push defendants into debt and pressure them into entering pleas to avoid financial strain.

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The $200 Barrier to Justice: Why NJ Must Eliminate Municipal Public Defender Fees - New Jersey Policy Perspective Despite the constitutional right to an attorney, municipal courts charge fees up to $200 for public defenders, pushing low-income residents into debt.

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Despite the constitutional right to an attorney, municipal courts charge up to $200 for public defenders, pushing low-income residents into debt.

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Exactly why New Jersey needs the Immigrant Trust Act!

It’s a great time to be rich in N.J. Here’s why. Here's what the One Big Beautiful Bill means for your wallet.

While 720,000 wealthy NJ families get permanent tax breaks under the "One Big Beautiful Bill," 360,000 poor, disabled, and elderly residents lose Medicaid and food assistance. This isn't economic policy. This is choosing winners and losers based on wealth.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

Has everyday life changed due to increased ICE activity in your area? We want to know NPR wants to hear from listeners whose lives have changed due to an increase in ICE operations, throughout the country.

NPR wants to hear from listeners whose lives have changed due to an increase in ICE operations, throughout the country.

And we continue to do NOTHING to limit ICE's access to our data...

Outrageous

A photo with a green background showing NJPP President Nicole Rodriguez and her recognition as an ROI 2025 People of Color Influencer.

🎉 Congratulations to NJPP President Nicole Rodriguez for being named to ROI's 2025 People of Color Influencer List!

Nicole's leadership in advancing social justice through evidence-based policy research makes New Jersey stronger for everyone.

www.roi-nj.com/2025/07/28/r...

Freedom from Want: An Economic Guarantee for New Jersey's Kids - New Jersey Policy Perspective Two pathways can dramatically reduce child poverty and ensure all families in New Jersey have what they need through cash assistance programs.

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Despite being one of the wealthiest states, 1 in 8 New Jersey children live in poverty. However, New Jersey has the resources to dramatically cut child poverty through direct cash assistance to families.

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Feds keep up pressure to overturn immigrant protections in NJ | Video | NJ Spotlight News Court is asked to reconsider legitimacy of Immigrant Trust Directive

Where are our legislators? What are they waiting for?

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ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice

Vera’s ICE Detention Trends dashboard paints an alarming picture: ICE is tearing apart, detaining, and deporting immigrant communities across the United States. On August 10, 2025, a record-high 59K+ people were held in ICE detention. For more: www.vera.org/ice-detentio...

The worst part is so many Latiné people will never even know they have lost rights until it is too late. While some coverage happened apparently when 20% of the country becomes second class citizens a picture the president drew imitating pubic hair with his signature is bigger news.

Taxing the rich is good policy in more fairly asking those who have accumulated the most wealth from our society to pay more.

BUT an underappreciated additional benefit of taxing the rich is reducing the risk of an unaccountable wealthy class that evades basic societal rules.

gee whiz

if you are running as a candidate who will FIGHT BACK against the current president, i recommend not embracing the false narrative and framing of crime that the president is using to justify military authoritarian takeovers of american cities.

This includes my latest book CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration

Federal Action Page - FCC Delay — Connecting Families

TAKE ACTION. Tell the FCC to #StopTheDelay: connectfamiliesnow.com/stopthedelay

New ICE courthouse tactic: Get immigrants’ cases tossed, then arrest them outside • New Jersey Monitor Immigrants released at the border are being targeted for arrest when they show up for court hearings.

New ICE courthouse tactic: Get immigrants’ cases tossed, then arrest them outside newjerseymonitor.com/2025/08/06/n... via @stateline.org

State and local policymakers should reject punitive policies from the Cicero Institute that ticket, fine, and jail people without a safe place to sleep. They should instead invest in housing and supportive services that promote stability and dignity. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

Summers Are Brutal in New York’s Prisons. This Year Is Worse Than… Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.

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New NAEP data show average US 4th Grader now fluent in trigonometry...

Join us today for a timely @nlada.bsky.social panel on how looming federal funding cuts could impact state & local budgets — possibly pressuring lawmakers to recoup lost revenue via fines & fees that unjustly harm low-income, Black & Brown communities.

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Scorching cells How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

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Victims of sex abuse in New Jersey's juvenile lockups demand justice • New Jersey Monitor More than 350 people have sued New Jersey for sex abuse they say they suffered in juvenile detention facilities. Some want the jails closed.

Victims of sex abuse in New Jersey’s juvenile lockups demand justice newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/31/v...

ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.

This is a dangerous expansion of the police state for nearly 180,000 people.

Placing those going through the legal process — our neighbors and loved ones — under 24/7 government surveillance is a gross violation of our civil liberties.

The Government’s Growing Trove of Social Media Data It’s increasingly collecting and using social media information to make high-stakes decisions related to immigration.

The government has proposed expanding the mandatory collection of social media identifiers. It would widen social media surveillance to include not only travelers and visa applicants and visa holders, but also their U.S. citizen contacts.
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