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The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice’s report calls on Garden State lawmakers to introduce a range of incentives to promote apprenticeship programs.
Demelza Baer, the Institute’s senior counsel and director of the Economic Mobility Initiative, said many people are working but they’re “unable to afford all of life’s necessities, like rent, food and healthcare. This inequality is worse for people of color and women and it’s reached a really alarming level.”