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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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