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Highlighting gaps in NJ’s racial equality, how to fix them

Andrea McChristian, NJ Institute for Social Justice: Reparations legislation would help

10/04/2021

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Highlighting gaps in NJ’s racial equality, how to fix them

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Andrea McChristian, NJ Institute for Social Justice: Reparations legislation would help

A report from The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice points out how the COVID-19 crisis exposed pre-existing cracks of structural racism in the state’s foundation that have devastated Black and brown communities where residents are getting sick and dying at disproportionate rates.

10/04/2021

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Business Report: Debt issues at federal level and in NJ

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Clip: 10/4/2021 | 2m 25s | If Congress doesn’t raise the borrowing limit, the U.S. could default on its debt (2m 25s)

EPA approves cleanup plan for 9 more miles of Passaic River

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Clip: 10/4/2021 | 3m 34s | Toxic mud and sediment between Garfield and Belleville will be targeted for cleanup (3m 34s)

NJ women's marches call for more abortion access protection

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Clip: 10/4/2021 | 3m 41s | Gov. Phil Murphy has spoken in favor of the Reproductive Freedom Act (3m 41s)

Public health workers feel ‘helplessness and burnout’

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Clip: 10/4/2021 | 4m 16s | Public health offices have been chronically underfunded, understaffed (4m 16s)

Trenton art project to honor victims of violence

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Clip: 10/4/2021 | 3m 28s | ‘It’s meant to highlight and give justice to the people who lost their lives senselessly’ (3m 28s)

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