by William M. Rodgers III is Professor of Public Policy and Chief Economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University.
Several weeks ago, I discussed how the jump in the state’s child poverty rate from 2009 to 2013 is due to Gov. Chris Christie’s decision in 2009 to cut the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) from 25 percent of the federal EITC to 20 percent.
Easing administrative burden in the public safety net: insights from a trauma-informed housing programme Abstract For survivors of domestic violence, public safety net benefits, including housing, food, and cash assistance, are often critical resources in establishing...
Are Data Centers Raising Your Electric Bill? Mostly Not. Yet. Authored by Kiran Garimella If you have opened an electric bill recently, you have probably noticed the same thing many households have: it is higher than it used to be. Nationally, average residential...
NCHRP Research Report 1178: Improving Virtual Public Involvement in Transportation Agencies Read Report Summary Virtual public involvement (VPI), defined by the Federal Highway Administration as “the use of digital technology to engage individuals or to visualize...
From NLP to LLMs to agentic AI: The evolution of artificial intelligence Introduction Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated global enterprises and societies with a velocity that is without precedent in the history of technology. Yet we must remind...
A Letter from the Guest Editors "Counter-GIS" as Collaborative Practice: Grounded Experiments in Digital Mapping Download the Full Issue Over the past several decades, digital maps have increasingly become a part of the lives of non-specialists, be it through...