Poverty Benchmarks Archive

The Poverty Benchmarks report series was inaugurated in January 2007 and is updated annually. The current edition of the report is available on the Poverty in New Jersey page. The first edition of the report, with data for earlier years than those covered in the current report is available below.

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• Poverty Benchmarks 2007: Poor in the Garden State: Beginning to Assess New Jersey's Progress in Addressing Poverty - The Poverty Benchmarks Project is a new on-going data collection effort that aims to increase understanding of poverty in New Jersey as a foundation for more effective public response to the reality of poverty and its consequences.  This report is the inaugural report in this project and offers the highlights of a multi-dimensional review of the data related to poverty in New Jersey.  It looks at five primary areas including what is meant by the term poverty and how it is measured; the state’s growing income inequality; the characteristics of populations in poverty; places in the state with high rates of poverty; and the impacts of poverty including health care, housing, education, transportation and the need for a safety net.

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