By Briana Vannozzi
Correspondent

Temp worker Clare Echols sums up what a lot of people in New Jersey are thinking about the middle class, “There’s no such thing anymore, you’re either rich or you’re poor,” and she may be right. More New Jerseyans are in poverty now than in the last 50 years, according to new analysis from Legal Services of New Jersey.

“And that means tremendous depravation and tremendous pain for a lot of people,” said Melville Miller, President, Legal Services of New Jersey.

The report, by the Edison-based non-profit is the ninth in a series of annual poverty studies. By their definition, 2.8 million adults and 800,000 children lived in poverty in 2014, about a third of all New Jersey households. That’s more than double the number released by the U.S. Census Bureau recently, which put it at a million residents. [Read more at NJTVNews]