August 5, 2018 | In the News
Both NJ Transit and the Gateway project are facing funding problems. Martin Robins, the authority on all things mass transit and Founding Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, talks about the challenges facing Gov.Phil Murphy when it comes to...
August 4, 2018 | In the News
The U.S. labor market works generally on the law of supply and demand. When the unemployment rate is low, and businesses are hiring, employers generally hike wages to attract the workers needed to fill their open jobs. Even with the jobless rate at 3.9 percent in...
August 2, 2018 | In the News
As the promise of VR spreads, critics assert that prisons are looking for a relatively inexpensive tech solution to a social problem. How well VR works to rehabilitate inmates is unknown since these programs are the first of their kind. Nancy Wolfe, a professor at...
August 2, 2018 | In the News
NJ 101.5 writes that State Sen. Troy Singleton, D-Burlington, is sponsoring a measure that would give homeowners a tax credit of up to $1,000 in order to help cover an extra mortgage payment, quoting James Hughes. NJ1015.com, August 2, 2018
August 2, 2018 | In the News
A new report suggests suburban living in the metropolitan region may not be passé after all, although New Jersey’s urban counties are continuing to grow even faster than the suburbs. The new Rutgers Regional Report released yesterday indicates a possible resurgence of...
August 1, 2018 | In the News
A new Rutgers Regional Report, “The ‘Burbs’ Bounce Back: ‘Trendlet’ or ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?” finds that the predicted transformative demographic shifts of the early part of the decade (2010-2016)—an urban resurgence and a suburban malaise—may, in fact, be reversing. The...
August 1, 2018 | In the News
Several studies have shown that many New Jersey residents are moving out of the state at a high rate. New Jerseyans say that the high cost of living in the state is forcing them to move to Pennsylvania and elsewhere. But as a state with an already high population, and...
July 29, 2018 | In the News
Twenty-eight so-called enclosed malls dot New Jersey, and except for high-end enclaves like The Mall at Short Hills, many struggle to stay profitable. “That’s the other dimension of retooling malldom in New Jersey, shifting activities to experience, health, wellness...
July 27, 2018 | In the News
“The governor’s talking a lot about the need to take a fresh look at incentives and make sure we’re getting the right value for investment, make sure we’re getting the right return on our investments and make sure we’re encouraging the parts of the economy that we...
July 26, 2018 | In the News
“Given the tax credits available to users at the site are scheduled to sunset mid next year, as well as other factors,” said Hankowsky, the company needed to write down the $80 million project by almost a third of its investment. Last week, a study on those tax...
July 25, 2018 | In the News
The end of July brings the horizon of August and soon college students from East Carolina University will return to the world of academia and all that it brings. Life as a college student consists of a multitude of things, but one facet which often gets taken for...
July 25, 2018 | In the News
“The absolute first step in having an equitable bike-share system is that there has to be access to the system. So there has to be bike-share stations in underserved communities,” McNeil added. Rutgers professor and transportation researcher Charles T. Brown agrees,...
July 25, 2018 | In the News
With increasing speculation about the role the Russian government may have played in the 2016 election and what tactics they might have used, cyberattacks on government entities have become a prominent issue at the forefront of the American conscious. Rutgers...
July 24, 2018 | In the News
Just a few short years ago, there were real questions about whether Congress would ditch annual, standardized assessments as part of a makeover of the nation’s main K-12 education law. At the same time, parents were increasingly choosing to opt their children out of...
July 24, 2018 | In the News
After only two months, the bright yellow bikes that wheeled around the City of Camden’s streets are no more. The bike share program was supposed to be demonstration portion of a part of a six-month bike share feasibility study in partnership with Cooper’s Ferry...
July 24, 2018 | In the News
LimeBike and other dockless bike-share programs piloted this summer in New York City throughout Coney Island, Brooklyn, and in the Rockaways in Queens. “They have some benefits — fast deployment, flexibility for users,” said Rutgers University expert Robert Noland....
July 23, 2018 | In the News
NJBIZ writes that tax credits are just one of NJ’s business magnets, quoting Lyneir Richardson (RBS) and James Hughes. NJBIZ.com, July 23, 2018 (subscription required)
July 22, 2018 | In the News
Borough residents and visitors alike will feel a bit safer as street safety measures and beautification projects will be implemented throughout the month of July, and possibly for good. Those putting in the work are Student Ambassadors, a group of students part of 4-H...
