WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following report (No. ACSBR-022) on Sept. 12, 2024, by Craig Benson entitled "Poverty in States and Metropolitan Areas: 2023." Here are excerpts: * * * INTRODUCTION Planners, policymakers, and community stakeholders use poverty estimates as key indicators to evaluate trends and current economic conditions within communities and to make comparisons across demographic groups. Federal and state governments often use these estimate  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALEXANDER KOLITSAS, 30, of Wolcott, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to offenses related to his leadership of a catalytic converter theft and trafficking ring. According to court documents and statements made in  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Oct. 8 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that Jersey City will be Hudson County's second municipality - in addition to Bayonne, through the Hudson County Sheriff's Office - to participate in the Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation (ARRIVE) Together program. The Jersey City Division of Police will partner with Jersey City Med  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Oct. 8 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: * * * Tim Sullivan talks innovation, job creation, economic growth and NJ's booming industries such as film & TV * * * "Fifty years and 10 governors after its creation, the work of the NJEDA is more essential than ever as we continue to build and shape a stronger, fairer New Jersey economy that supports good-paying, family-supporting jobs of the future," Gov. Phil Murphy said in February. This   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This year, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center hosted 18 students from 12 states and 18 different colleges and universities. Project topic areas ranged from climate change, offshore wind, and microplastics, to fish and fisheries, aquaculture, and protected species. Some projects involved technologies and techniques such as passive acoustics, photography, biodeposition, mass spectrometry, and   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news on Oct. 7, 2024: * * * Boron could help the tungsten wall inside a tokamak keep its atoms to itself * * * Fusion (https://youtu.be/kNve35UnkHs?si=vkEISI8YbREqexDD) researchers are increasingly turning to the element tungsten when looking for an ideal material for components that will directly face the plasma(Link is external) inside fusion reactors known as tokamaks (h  more