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Watch Interview with Dean Emeritus James Hughes on the July Federal Jobs Report
NJ Spotlight News’ Rhonda Schaffler interviews Dean Emeritus James Hughes about the surprising federal jobs report for July 2022
Gavin Rozzi Revolutionizes OPRA Requests in NJ with Website
Bloustein Adjunct Professor and RUCI Lab Research Computing Specialist Gavin Rozzi Revolutionizes OPRA Requests in New Jersey with a Website called OPRA Machine. “I tried to get basic records — copies of checks and financial records — for investigative pieces. But...
NJ State Policy Lab – Working at home: what will the long-term effects of the pandemic be?
The pandemic continues to impact our lives. Working from home, school and daycare closures, gender disparities with household labor changes are explored in today’s blog.
Ocean county no longer among the oldest in NJ
New affordable housing in Ocean county is attracting a younger crowd. More retirees are electing to stay in their homes rather than move to the 55+ communities that drove up the median age in the southern part of the state. Dean Emeritus James W. Hughes discusses the...
Fusion voting. Should we revisit ballot design from the 1800s?
Professor Julia Sass Rubin, who has been popular in the media this Spring for challenging party line ballots, makes a case for bringing back fusion voting.
Heldrich Center for Workforce Development Announces Appointment of Anton House, Ph.D. as a Visiting Scholar
Professor House will join the center’s Workplace Divided team to conduct research examining perceptions of workplace discrimination through national surveys and stakeholder engagement
New Jersey State Policy Lab: College and University Administrators’ Perceptions of the CCOG and GSG
This research insight focuses on the Community College Opportunity Grant (CCOG) and the Garden State Guarantee (GSG), two sources of financial aid for low-income students in New Jersey which collectively constitute a “message of college promise.”
How strong is the US economy? Depends on which party you ask
The jobless rate is at a record low of 3.6%, but consumer prices are up 9.1% as of June 2022. Are we officially in a recession? That depends on who you ask. “It suggests, overall, the economy is weakening, it’s certainly losing steam, where there are storm clouds not...
NJ Government Records has Nearly Two-year backlog
Bloustein Professor and Local Govt. Research Center Assistant Director Marc Pfeiffer weighs in on the nearly two year backlog at https://nj.gov/grc/. “The law was written with an appreciation for the technology at the time, for the procedures at the time,” Pfeiffer...
Research: Is there wealth stability across generations in the U.S.?
A substantial portion of grandparents with the lowest proportions of wealth in 1984-1989 are likely to have grandchildren who end up in the lowest wealth stratum in 2015-2017.
Spanning regional contexts for international planning and development
After earning a bachelor’s in architecture and working in the field for several years, Divya decided to realign her architecture and design practice towards international planning by working towards a master’s in urban planning in the U.S.
N.J. is increasing diversity.
New Jersey is one of the most diverse states in the nation, and year after year it has only gotten more so. “The suburbs are far more diverse today than they were 25 years ago,” said James Hughes, a professor and a former dean of Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of...