August 31, 2015 | In the News
After reviewing various difficulties with real-world polling,Cliff Zukin (professor of public policy and political science at the School for Planning and Public Policy and at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University) concludes: Those paying close...
August 28, 2015 | In the News
Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, said such shortages are partly the product of an improving economy and the dual trends of older workers in the field retiring, and younger workers less interested in training...
August 28, 2015 | In the News
It is a “complex report about a complex set of questions that Congress wanted answer(ed),” said Michael Greenberg, chairman of the Omnibus Risk Review Committee and faculty dean of the Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. The committee will listen...
August 26, 2015 | In the News
Atlantic City’s mounting job losses are holding back a painfully slow economic recovery for New Jersey as a whole, a Rutgers economist said in a study released Tuesday. Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, or R/ECON, said the four casinos...
August 25, 2015 | In the News
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) student Brandon Williams is the recipient of a 2015 APTF Scholarship. All member organizations of the American Public...
August 24, 2015 | In the News
The name says it all: the New Jersey Transportation Independence Program, or NJTIP. The nonprofit organization provides educational assistance to Jersey residents on how to travel around the region on mass transportation. Recently, representatives of NJTIP visited the...
August 20, 2015 | In the News
There’s no way to sugarcoat the news,” said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. For the second month in a row, New Jersey lost thousands of jobs. The new July figures show the state losing 13,600...
August 20, 2015 | In the News
The names James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca will be familiar to anyone who follows New Jersey economics and public policy. Hughes is professor and dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Seneca is Distinguished...
August 19, 2015 | In the News
Chris Christie’s campaign for president is on the rocks. His popularity among New Jersey voters is at or near all-time lows. And the governor’s to-do list in Trenton is a mile long. So what are we to make of all this, New Jersey? We’re gonna dig in...
August 19, 2015 | In the News
The use of the earlier surveys will hurt the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, who barely registered in the polls before the Aug. 6 Fox News debate. But since then, she has seen a significant bounce. “It acts as sort of an anchor on those people who had done poorly early...
August 19, 2015 | Public Policy Practicums
New Jersey Student Success Programs: An Inventory and Report of Promising Practices Prepared for the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education Chanel Donaldson, Mehreen Mian, Juan Rodriguez, Xinxin Wang, Christian Weisenbacher View Report “Student...
August 19, 2015 | Public Policy Practicums
Promises Made, Promises Broken: An overview of Gambling in New Jersey and recommendations for the future Yixin Liu, Neha Mehta, Paul Siracusa, Annelisa Steeber, and Jared Sussman View Report New Jersey has benefited from being a frontrunner in many gambling sectors...
August 19, 2015 | Public Policy Practicums
New Jersey Community Capital. South Jersey Initiative: An Investigation of Workforce and Economic Development in Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties Giancarlo Di Lonardo, Lorena Guadiana, Connor Montferrat, Lauren Rava, Michael Soszynski, and Maggie...
August 19, 2015 | Public Policy Practicums
Bridging the Gap: Investigating opportunities for Encore Talent in Early Childhood Education in New Jersey Graie Hagans, Becky Kelleman, Yi Lu & Alana Vega View Report New Jersey is making significant efforts towards the well-being of young children through...
August 15, 2015 | In the News
The recently-introduced First Amendment Defense Act, co-sponsored by over 100 members of Congress, shares its origins with the same mentality that created Jim Crow laws following the Civil War as well as the less formal but still violent anti-black discrimination that...
August 13, 2015 | In the News
A similar proposal is being developed by former NJ Transit executives Martin Robins and D.C. Agrawal. Robins, the founding director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, was the project director of ARC, the earlier trans-Hudson tunnel project that...
August 10, 2015 | In the News
Rutgers economist James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said companies employing between five and 25 workers — such as “mom and pop” businesses — are the biggest job creators, and their thirst for new capital is a...
August 8, 2015 | In the News
Professor Carl Van Horn and his colleagues at Rutgers University this spring did an in-depth survey of 944 workers, 504 of whom were involuntary part-time workers and 440 who were part-timers by choice. They were a sample of the 26 million Americans who hold part-time...
