Nobody should have to worry about being able to afford critical health care, Gov. Philip D. Murphy said in his sixth-annual State of the State address.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey embraced proposals to make it easier to build affordable housing and cut out-of-pocket expenses for abortions in his annual State of the State address on Tuesday.
The governor, a second-term Democrat barred from running for re-election, also said he would support the increased use of phonics to teach reading and that he would continue to work to ease the burden of medical debt, presumably by expanding a program he funded last year that sought to leverage $10 million to retire 100 times that amount in residents debt.
In the wealthiest nation in the world, t…
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