{"id":20593,"date":"2025-07-19T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20593\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:56:12","slug":"most-new-jerseyans-are-struggling-to-pay-their-bills-bleak-new-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20593\/","title":{"rendered":"Most New Jerseyans are struggling to pay their bills, bleak new poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Consumer Spending\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/E5AWFUQURREEDKNWZZHGK6VE7I.jpg\" \/>FILE &#8211; A shopping cart filled with groceries sits in an aisle at an Asian grocery store in Rowland Heights, Calif., Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong, File)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XRVB6OIGFFHKDPYHF77UEIQWWU\">The majority of New Jerseyans are negative about the economy and are behind on paying for basic household costs, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rutgers-Eagleton-Poll-Economy-07.17.25-FINAL-PUBLIC-PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rutgers-Eagleton-Poll-Economy-07.17.25-FINAL-PUBLIC-PDF.pdf\">a new poll<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2BDQW4Z6XFEAXLWSIP64HFE4EA\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rutgers-Eagleton-Poll-Economy-07.17.25-FINAL-PUBLIC-PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rutgers-Eagleton-Poll-Economy-07.17.25-FINAL-PUBLIC-PDF.pdf\">Rutgers-Eagleton survey<\/a> showed more than half of the state\u2019s residents reported difficulty with paying for groceries, mortgage, healthcare, rent and utilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE &#8211; A shopping cart filled with groceries sits in an aisle at an Asian grocery store in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-20593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}