The answers to these and other questions are found in New Jersey Snapshots 2000, now available from New Jersey Policy Perspective. Snapshots offers page after page of statistical rankings that show how New Jersey stacks up against every other state in the union. Snapshots will help inform debate in New Jersey. It is a valuable research tool. It might even be helpful in settling a wager now and then.
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An NJPP study by Judith C. Cambria finds that the current cluster of programs to help New Jerseyans overburdened by property taxes has for the most part failed. The system doesn't deliver enough relief and what it does provide isn't targeted enough to the people who need it most. The report includes several specific recommendations for change. And, she will report on New Jersey's current property tax relief measures as to their adequacy and equity. Judith Cambria is Fiscal Policy Specialist for the New Jersey League of Women Voters, for whom she has been involved with tax, budget and education analysis for nearly 30 years.