State and local fiscal impacts of US immigrants: Evidence from New Jersey

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Espenshade ◽  
Vanessa E. King
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Fiscal Impacts ◽  
State And Local

scholarly journals Police and the Post-9/11 Surveillance Surge: “Technological Dramas” in “the Bureaucratic Field”

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Innis McQuade
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intelligence Community ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Criminal Intelligence ◽  
Municipal Police ◽  
State And Local

In the last decade, the United States has invested considerable resources into an expanded intelligence apparatus that extends from the hyper-secretive federal intelligence community down to the more mundane world of municipal police. This paper investigates the effects of the post-9/11 surveillance surge on state and local policing. It presents original research on interagency intelligence centers New York and New Jersey and deploys Pfaffenberger’s “technological drama” as a process animating the neoliberal constitution of what Bourdieu calls the “bureaucratic field.” Despite seemingly dramatic changes, there exists powerful continuity in the profession of policing. Before or after Snowden, the day-to-day reality of criminal intelligence remains shaped by the immediate demands of investigations and the small politics of interagency rivalries, insulating policing from dramatic reforms and swift change. What reformers see as dysfunction is better understood as a technological drama in the bureaucratic field that paradoxically provides a degree of autonomy and slows the pace of change.  This paper builds on and contributes to the tendency within surveillance studies that emphasizes the ways in which human agents and organizational cultures mediate surveillance.

Causes and Ramifications of Public Pension Fund Underfunding

2018 ◽  
pp. 114-146
Author(s):  
Joyce Miller
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
Retirement Security ◽  
Public Pension Fund ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Primary Focus

The problem of public pension plan underfunding has grown increasingly acute in recent years for numerous states and cities including Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Charleston, Chicago and Philadelphia. Underfunded pension systems have profound implications for state and local governments' ability to provide basic services to their citizens and calls into question the retirement security of their public employees. The history of the severely underfunded New Jersey pension funds will be examined in order to understand how the current crisis developed. Economic and demographic changes, conditions in the capital markets, political and budgetary priorities and pressures, and actuarial conventions will be examined in order to highlight how the crisis is the result of the complex interaction of social, political and economic forces. The primary focus will be on how the capital markets influence the funding levels of pension systems and the options for government action.

scholarly journals Broken Promises to the People of Newark: A Historical Review of the Newark Uprising, the Newark Agreements, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School’s Commitments to Newark

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2117
Author(s):  
Rosy C. Franklin ◽  
Ryan A. Behmer Hansen ◽  
Jean M. Pierce ◽  
Diomedes J. Tsitouras ◽  
Catherine A. Mazzola
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
The People ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Organized Medicine ◽  
The Many

Many have referred to the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis and intertwined issues of structural racism as “twin pandemics”. As healthcare workers in Newark, New Jersey, a city heavily affected by the twin pandemics, we recognize that health workforce changes must be grounded in our community’s recent history. The objective of this essay is to briefly describe the relationship between organized medicine, state and local leaders, and the people of Newark. We begin with a discussion of Newark in the 1950s and 1960s: its people experienced poor socioeconomic conditions, terrible medical care, and the many sequelae of abhorrent racism. Plans to establish a New Jersey Medical School in Newark’s Central Ward also threatened to displace many residents from their homes. We then describe the Newark Agreements of 1968, which formalized a social contract between the state, business leaders, and people of Newark. In part, the Medical School committed to indefinitely promoting public health in Newark. We share progress towards this goal. Finally, we document key healthcare administrative decisions facing our community today. Stakeholder opinions are shared. We conclude that the Newark Agreements set an important standard for communities across the country. Creative solutions to healthcare policy may be realized through extensive community collaboration.

Are Immigrants a Drain on the Public Fisc? State and Local Impacts in New Jersey

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Garvey ◽  
Thomas J. Espenshade ◽  
James M. Scully
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
The Public ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Local Impacts

Mental Health Benefits in New Jersey State and Local Government

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Gary E. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Safety Issue ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

Adequate mental health coverage is a key element of a comprehensive employee benefits package. The absence of adequate mental health coverage imposes significant costs on employees, their families, and our society as a whole and is a larger public health and safety issue. The focus of this study is to analyze mental health policies and coverage levels for New Jersey State government employees and a sample of New Jersey local governments. The results indicated an absence of parity between physical and mental health coverage for New Jersey state and local government employees. The most significant inequities include differential limits concerning the number of inpatient days and outpatient visits as well as patient contributions in terms of copay, coinsurance, and deductible provisions. A comprehensive mental health management model is proposed for adoption by state and local governments.

The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-224
Author(s):  
Stacy Wolf
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
State Parks ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Rodgers And Hammerstein

This chapter visits three large, unique, outdoor venues for musical theatre in the summer: the Mountain Play in Mill Valley, California, the Zilker Summer Musical in Austin, Texas, and the Open Air Theatre at Washington Crossing, New Jersey, focusing on each theatre’s production of The Sound of Music. The Mountain Play has produced of one show each spring since 1913 in a 3,750-seat amphitheatre on the top of Mt. Tamalpais. The Zilker Summer Musical, established by the local recreation department in 1959, offers an annual free musical on a hillside that attracts thousands of spectators, many of whom would not otherwise see a play. The Open Air Theatre, which opened in 1964, presents thirteen shows each summer to more than eighteen thousand spectators. Each one of these venues, all located in old and well-established state parks, also boasts a complex history in relation to state and local government. Coincidentally, these three organizations produced The Sound of Music in successive years—the perfect show for an outdoor theatre. When Maria sings, “The hills are alive with the sound of music,” it was true: The hills are alive with the sound of music, though not actually the Austrian mountains where the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is set.

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