Health Literacy

With more than 40 percent of Camden’s Spanish-speaking residents having limited English proficiency, explains Dana Pilla, functional health literacy could literally mean the difference between life and death. “The need can’t be underestimated in this community, where residents could require help translating anything from doctor’s instructions to medicine labels,” says the assistant teaching professor of […]

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Prize-Linked Savings

If there’s one thing people like to do, it’s play the lottery. Some estimates have the average American spending slightly more than $200 a year on the lottery. In the Garden State, that number is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $315 a year for the average lottery-playing resident. In 2017, New Jersey’s

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