May 24, 2016 | In the News
As the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act marks its twentieth anniversary, researchers are still exploring the impact of this law, called “welfare reform.” Although this law’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program helps...
May 20, 2016 | Public Policy Practicums
A Pathway Out of the Shadows: Evaluating Affordable Housing Solutions For Immigrant Communities Glen Acheampong, Patrick Clark, Matthew Iozzio, Alexis Juncaj, Xin Wang View Report In short, securing housing is one of the most significant challenges immigrants face....
May 20, 2016 | Public Policy Practicums
A Framework for Assessing Cyber Resilience: A Report for the World Economic Forum Brianna Keys, Aashish Chhajer, Zilong Liu, and Daniel Horner View Report Cyber resilience is of growing importance in our hyperconnected world, no longer relegated to simply the concerns...
May 20, 2016 | Public Policy Practicums
Debt Sentence: The Effects of New Jersey’s Declining Public Investment in Higher Education James DiGenno, Kevin Llangari, Michelle Mayer, Adam Sherman View Report Across the United States public investment in higher education at the state level has consistently...
May 20, 2016 | Public Policy Practicums
Pathways to Success: Investigating the Promotion of STEM Education in New Jersey Matthew S. Guglielmello, Stephanie Holcomb, Jim Lloyd, and Hao Wu View Report The Office of the Secretary of Higher Education (OSHE) provides coordination, planning, policy development,...
May 18, 2016 | In the News
But critics are still concerned about the children charters do not take from the traditional public schools. “The charters kind of cream off the less expensive, easier to educate students,” said Dr. Julia Sass Rubin, an associate professor at Rutgers University Edward...
May 16, 2016 | Alumni Spotlight, Career, News
In keeping with Rutgers’s motto of “Jersey Roots, Global Reach,” Bloustein students had the opportunity to visit the United Nations headquarters in April to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN’s role in peacekeeping throughout the world. Arranged by...
May 10, 2016 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, Rutgers University’s Bloustein School Local Government Research Center senior policy fellow and assistant director, said that he believed ticket surcharges were the most convenient way to finance these funds. “The legislature has a lot of...
May 9, 2016 | In the News
Anger about stagnant wages, among other things, has helped fuel the presidential runs of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. When the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University surveyed Americans after the recession about the causes of high...
May 9, 2016 | In the News
ut even as New Jersey’s unemployment rate has been ahead of the national average all year, the state lost nearly 2,000 jobs during the first three months of 2016, stumping New Jersey economists. “I think this is a real headscratcher,” said James Hughes, dean of the...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
New Jersey has regained 91 percent of the jobs lost during the recession. Nancy Mantell, the director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, predicts the balance will be recovered by early next year. The most job growth over the next decade will be in education and...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
“Is slow-go now the new economic normal for New Jersey? It kind of looks that way,” said James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. “Our once great 20th century suburban job creation machine has really faltered in...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
“This was the state’s best performance since 2000,” said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON). “We should recover the balance by early 2017, and by the end of the forecast period in 2026, the employment base should be 370,000 jobs,...