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New Jersey is in the crosshairs of supply and demand. The Garden State

doesn’t have enough of what millennials want and that’s a major problem.

Generation Y — those between the ages of 18 and 35 — prefers urban commu-

nities to the suburban landscape crafted for an influx of residents that left be-

hind crowded cities in the 1940s and ’50s. Those among the younger generation

who want a house in the burbs, find New Jersey too expensive because they are

under-employed in the state’s tight job market or buried in student loan debt.

Read about what businesses and communities should be doing to cater to the

largest generation since baby boomers. Those that recognize New Jersey needs

millennials will take home a win in the marketplace. Today in @issue, 1AA.

SPECIAL REPORT

GENERATIONDOMINATION

ANDREW FORD/STAFF PHOTO

Millennials are a connected generation — to their communities, their mobile devices and each other.

Debt

New Jersey millennials’ billion-dollar student-loan debt prob-lem is weighing heavily on every-one in the Garden State.

Housing

Pricey homes in a tight job mar-ket not only mean there arefewer qualified buyers to sellyour home to — it means buyersmay move to states that bettermeet their needs.

Jobs

Companies offering flexiblehours and an engaging workculture will be able to hire thebest of the millennial bunch.

A series of patrol cars rushed into the FreeholdRaceway Mall parking lot April 16, responding a fright-ening 911 call from the food court.

But when they arrived, officers found no signs oftrouble.

Shoppers were browsing clothing racks and sittingdown for dinner. The mall owner wasn’t aware of anyemergency, much less a 911 call.

They had just been “swatted.”It was the third case that week of swatting, a prank

where someone makes a hoax 911 call while disguisingtheir phone number and its origin, drawing police andoften heavily armed SWAT officers to the location of amade-up emergency.

Officers quickly realized the Freehold call was a

TANYA BREEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Staff members wait outside Village Elementary School inHolmdel for what turned out to be a swatting incident.

Lawmakerstaking aimat swatting STEPH SOLIS @STEPHMSOLIS

See SWATTING, Page 6A

“This is a demented, evil act that puts

people at risk of significant injury or

death.”

ASSEMBLYMAN PAUL MORIARTY

TRENTON — New Jersey’s pension debate ratchetedup a few notches last week, with what could well be ex-pensive implications for taxpayers, past and futurepensioners, and a host of state-funded programs.

The state teachers’ union broke off talks with Gov.Chris Christie’s administration on additional benefitsreforms. Democratic legislative leaders asked the NewJersey Supreme Court to order Christie to reverse $3.3billion in pension cuts he made on his own.

And the governor took to Twitter and a town hallmeeting to rip Democrats. Key court hearings in twocases loom in early May.

Why should taxpayers care about all this tit for tat?Billions of reasons, but let’s narrow that down to a hand-ful.

N.J.’s benefits debtat $29G per home— and counting

MICHAEL SYMONS @MICHAELSYMONS

See PENSIONS, Page 7A

To spotlight our Millennial Project, APP is going on the

road to talk to millennials and their younger counterparts

about what life in N.J. is like for Gen Y. We’re bringing

beats, free food for the first students to show up at our

tent, and a chance to win an Apple Watch.

Tuesday, noon to 2 p.m.: Brookdale Community College, Student Life Center Patio

Wednesday, noon to 2 p.m.: Monmouth University, in front of the MultipurposeActivity Center (MAC)

Thursday, noon to 2 p.m.: Georgian Court University

Friday, noon to 2 p.m.: Ocean County College, Parking Lot 1

Visit app.com/njneedsme for more info.

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