Sen. Menendez, others call on Consumer Product Safety Commission to formulate and enforce stricter rules to ensure toy guns look like toys

Survey: 14% of city youngsters are thriving, 39% have the tools needed to succeed, 37% are vulnerable and 10% are challenged or fragile

Advocates hope bill will fare better under Murphy administration, given governor’s professed progressive opinions

Testimony about citizens’ encounters with police is being collected across the state

Governor, signing bill package, says it’s a ‘moral failure’ that so many New Jerseyans don’t have enough to eat

Commissioner also reports to Assembly Budget Committee about ongoing efforts to reduce substance-use disorder, change department’s ‘culture’

Civil rights summit is told that legislation and policy are the keys to ending segregation in suburbs across the state

Changes in programs bolster support for young adults, families with children, make help available over longer periods

The measure, nearly 10 years in the making, would greatly expand the statute of limitations on civil suits brought by victims

Anti-hunger group estimates that 48 percent of New Jerseyans 60 and older who are eligible for SNAP got the food assistance