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Social Development & Bureaucracy in Pakistan
Saquiba Aziz - IRD Global – Pakistan Deworming Initiative View Presentation Watch Video
The Power of Data-Driven Policy Evaluation in Federal Government
Kermina Hanna - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) View Presentation Watch Video
Local Hazard Mitigation Planning & its Implications on Federal Floodplain Management & Policy
Tracy Glova - Bloustein School Environmental Analysis and Communications Group View Presentation Watch Video
Remaking the American Technology Sector with the Endless Frontier Act
Garin Bulger - Bipartisan Policy Center View Presentation Watch Video
Bloustein School master’s student McKenna Winnie passed away on October 11
The school is saddened to share the news that Masters student McKenna Winnie passed away earlier this week. McKenna graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Science in Human Services before joining Rutgers in the...
New Jersey Climate Change Alliance announces statewide Organic Material Management Plan
Recognizing the importance of the New Jersey Food Waste Recycling Law, the New Jersey Climate Change Alliance Organics Workgroup was created with a common goal of outlining a statewide “Sustainable Organic Material Management Plan” (SOMMP) for New Jersey.
New book by Jane Miller seeks to improve math competence, confidence
Innumeracy is not found just among students; it extends to researchers and workers in social sciences and many other fields.
Can anyone lower New Jersey’s property taxes? What the candidates for governor are saying
Murphy’s Republican predecessor, Chris Christie, worked with Democrats in the Legislature a decade ago to put a 2% annual cap on property tax increases, with some exceptions. The effects of that cap have been clear with slower growth under Murphy, said Marc Pfeiffer,...
On the eviction moratorium, the Supreme Court turns the law on its head | Opinion
When the U.S. Supreme Court, on Aug. 26, ruled against President Biden’s extension of the moratorium on evictions, it sacrificed the safety and quite possibly the lives of hundreds of Americans to a legal ideology known as legal positivism or the...
NJ about to subtract one of its tiniest towns in rare merger
The borough of Pine Valley in Camden County has already voted to consolidate into Pine Hill. The disappearing town has 21 residents – barely one for each hole on the main course at Pine Valley Golf Club, one of the top golf courses in the world and the borough’s...
Homecoming 2021: Shawn Tucker applies football, urban planning skills to his career in college athletics
A four-year letterwinner as a wide receiver, Shawn was a double major in geography and labor studies, and after graduation returned to the Bloustein School to earn a Master of City and Regional Planning.
Bike-share programs aren’t profitable but chip away at emissions
But some say money can’t define bike-share programs’ success. Reminder, said Robert Noland, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University: All transportation costs governments money. “So it’s fairly cheap for a city or the state to subsidize...