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Murphy’s property-tax relief proposal, a boon to more taxpayers
Marc Pfeiffer recently spoke with NJSpotlightNews about Gov. Murphy’s expanded property-tax relief program for both homeowners and renters in the context of previous property-tax relief efforts in New Jersey. NJSpotlight News, March 11, 2022
Opinion: Kafka would find rich material in the American system of health care billing
As an academic who has taught U.S. #healthcarepolicy for over two decades and published numerous studies about #healthinsurance and #healthcaremarkets, Bloustein School distinguished professor of #publicpolicy and director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy...
NJ gas prices soaring, but will that give a jolt to electric vehicle sales?
Robert B. Noland, director Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, said New Jersey's goal of getting half of new vehicles sold to be electric by 2030 is in line with Europe and other states. Getting there won't be easy. The increase in...
COVID-19 laid bare gaps in NJ public health. Here’s how foundations propose to fix that
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of New Jersey’s underfunded and understaffed public health system, and now two New Jersey-based foundations have proposed a public health institute for the state — and have offered the seed money to get it started. ...
Call for Nominations for Rutgers Beloved Community Initiatives
The Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes of Rutgers University Equity and Inclusion is excited to announce the call for award nominations and art submissions for Beloved Community Initiatives and have extended the deadlines.
Inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, sharpest spike since 1982
Inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, it's the sharpest spike since 1982, according to a report released Thursday by the Labor Department. Bread, meat, eggs, milk, fruit, even coffee have all increased. But the question is why? The inflation we are seeing today is...
A Multi-Decennial Census Data Set for NJ, 2010 and 2020 (and More): A New Jersey State Policy Lab Offering
This census-based product will appeal to municipal governments within the State of New Jersey because it is provided in an easily read format (Microsoft Excel) but also provides historical reference and shows change across New Jersey’s counties and municipalities since the last decennial census.
In Democratic Bastion, Liberal Rhetoric Is Out. ‘Affordability’ Is In.
In the first budget address of his second term, Gov. Philip Murphy responded to New Jersey voters’ discontent at a time of surging gas costs and high taxes. Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at theEdward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers...
BEAT’s “Transportation Talks” with Bill Moyer, Director of Solutionary Rail
The focus on rail as a solution for moving freight grew out of activism to limit fossil fuels in the Pacific Northwest. Once a heavy rail user, the U.S. transitioned to heavy trucks to move goods around the country.
New Jersey State Policy Lab: An Early 2022 Inflation Update for New Jersey
Because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we should expect substantially more inflation over the next year in the form of energy prices.
Data Visualization with Python Jupyter Notebooks – A Hands-on Introduction
Friday, April 812:30-2:30 p.m. The session will consist of brief presentations, with around 100 minutes of interactive work-along demo of data visualization with Jupyter Notebooks, and end with Q&A. Participants will learn to create data visualizations and can opt...
Interest rate increases are coming – How much more will you pay in NJ?
With inflation continuing to heat up dramatically the Federal Reserve is expected to approve the first of many interest rate increases next week. Rutgers University economist James Hughes said no one is sure whether we’ll see an increase of a quarter percent, a half...
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