With New Jersey facing an estimated $40 billion in costs over the next two or three decades to fix its aging water infrastructure, the state may need to set up a program to help lower income residents pay their escalating water and sewer bills…For po…

Where the projected $40 billion needed to fix New Jersey’s aging water infrastructure is going to come from is a dilemma long recognized by the state’s policymakers and legislators. But no one has yet to offer any viable solutions…”We really don’t know what it will cost,” said Daniel Van Abs, a Rutgers professor, who recently wrote a study for New Jersey Future on the problem. Many of the most pressing issues confront the state’s 21 largest cities, according to the study.

Texas is leading the way in U.S. population growth. The Census Bureau said Thursday that seven of the top 15 fastest-growing cites are in Texas. They’re clustered around big oil and gas boomtowns like Dallas and Houston, or tech hubs like Austin. Sometimes population equals prosperity…People are moving there for jobs. “Naturally if there’s a lot of hiring you would expect people to migrate in,” says Paul Gottlieb, an economist at Rutgers. “But the jobs have not necessarily been very high paying.”