March 23, 2018 | In the News
The time for communities, decision makers, and practitioners to evaluate the potential health effects of a plan, policy, or project is before it is adopted, implemented, or built. One way that New Jersey can more systematically integrate the consideration of health...
March 14, 2018 | In the News
The departments may be small, but plenty of them are pricey. In more than half of the state’s 20 smallest towns with their own forces, the towns spent at least $1 million to maintain a police department. Some towns have tried to merge their departments to reduce...
March 7, 2018 | In the News
Food, fitness and fun. Those are key elements that the millennial generation, which is redefining corporate geography, is seeking in its live, work and play environment, according to James Hughes, professor and former dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning...
March 6, 2018 | In the News
It’s all part of a trend that began in the mid-20th Century, said James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. “In 1960, about half of all households were married families with children, the...
March 5, 2018 | In the News
Jim Hughes, the dean at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and co-author Joseph Seneca put it most succinctly in their recent work on New Jersey’s postsuburban economy: “New Jersey’s core advantage in...
February 27, 2018 | In the News
However, employing right-to-work laws could have a costly impact on women and people of color. A new working paper by Rutgers University professor William Rodgers III found that right-to-work laws hit the earnings of black and Latino workers the hardest because they...
February 26, 2018 | In the News
Michael Lahr, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service at the Bloustein School; Raphael Caprio, director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center; Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center; Richard Keevey,...
February 23, 2018 | In the News
Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., said the demonstration programs have often shifted from their intended purpose because they are designed by lawmakers pushing an agenda rather than as a...
February 22, 2018 | In the News
The last serious pause given to the New Brunswick light rail was the Greater New Brunswick Area Corridor Study, a $200,000 study published in 2001, that hashed out a route that would run between park-and-ride stations at Piscataway and East Brunswick. Under the plan,...
February 20, 2018 | In the News
Ocean County’s older population seems to have protected its mall; both J.C. Penney and Macy’s have closed stores elsewhere. But experts warn that the trend isn’t reversing itself. As many as a quarter of the nation’s 1,200 malls will close in...
February 20, 2018 | In the News
In his last address as governor, Chris Christie acknowledged that his administration had cut the unemployment rate in half. When Christie entered office the state’s unemployment rate was about 10.0 and when he left office, it was about 4.9. But the...
