March 2014
NJ has Chance to Provide Better Schools and Jobs
New Jersey has the 38th-worst unemployment rate in the nation, and for construction workers the jobless rate is even worse. At the same time, thousands of school children, their teachers and other staff face serious [...]
February 2014
Community, Public Health, and Labor Leaders Urge Federal Agencies to Prevent Chemical Disasters at Newark Hearing
Today, residents, community, labor, and environmental leaders gathered at a federal listening session to push the Obama administration to take bold steps to reduce the danger posed to millions of people by high-risk chemical facilities [...]
Plan to Build New Trenton Central High School Shows Power of Public Pressure
The recent announcement that Trenton Central High School (TCHS) will be rebuilt is the latest proof of the old saying that "if the people lead, the leaders will follow." Indeed, that has been the case [...]
January 2014
NBC Nightly News Exposes Horrendous Conditions at Trenton High School
This national media coverage would not have happened without the hard work that the Trenton community and Healthy Schools Now Coalition has done to raise awareness about the deplorable conditions in our schools. See the [...]
December 2013
Amazon.com Worker’s Death Sheds Much-Needed Light on Worker Safety
We may not know for several months exactly how a temporary worker died this month at Amazon.com's distribution center in Avenel, but there is already a lot we know about how companies like Amazon exploit [...]