The state last year added 82,000 private sector jobs. So far this year, however, we’ve lost more than 10,000.
“It appeared the state economy was ready for liftoff, but for the first five months of this year, through the end of May, we went into reverse,” said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
What’s really disturbing is no one seems to know exactly why this is happening.
Rutgers Democracy Lab (RDL) is excited to announce the launch of its inaugural Democracy Summer Research Fellowship. The fellowship funds 25 projects led by doctoral students from Rutgers–New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark and 15 academic disciplines selected from a...
Personal exposures to heat and PM2.5 in urban environments Abstract Current methods for assessing exposure to extreme heat and air pollution depend mostly on readings from regulatory monitoring stations. We hypothesize that this does not accurately represent the...
On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, the NJDOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center hosted the eighth New Jersey Complete Streets Summit. This year’s event, centered on the theme “Every Journey Safer,” was a resounding success, bringing together more than 250 planners,...
Op-ed by Tram Hoang, a senior associate at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute and Mark Paul, associate professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Massachusetts is losing its working families. Not just to...
From Campaigns to Classrooms: Teaching a New Generation About Advocacy with Bob Sommer, GSNB '84 As we wrap up our 14th season of EJB Talks Dean Stuart Shapiro talks to Bob Sommer GSNB ’84, a Bloustein School alumnus and former Eagleton fellow, lecturer, and member of...