N.J.'s $96M plan to save kids is 'a complete failure,' critics say. Who is it really helping?

On a sun-dappled summer day in 2022, Phil Murphy stood before his fellow governors and challenged them.

Save the young people struggling in your states, he implored his peers at a gathering in Portland, Maine. The COVID-19 pandemic had taken a festering problem — soaring rates of adolescent anxiety, depression and mental illness — and turned it into a full-blown crisis .