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Assessing Local Public Health Capacity in New Jersey: Challenges and Opportunities, December 1
This half-day virtual convening will provide an overview of project outcomes and an opportunity to discuss implications and next steps with public health leaders.
From Scarlet Knight to Policy Student to Trade Official
Stuart Shapiro and former Scarlet Knight punter Chris Gough MPP ’18 reflect on his time as a policy student and how his work at ITA is making a difference.
Solomon proposes Jersey City ethics reforms to avoid being ‘a punchline because of corruption’
T. Patrick Hill, Ph.D., an associate professor at The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, vocalized support for the changes suggested by Solomon. “Corruption in government, at any level, breeds a corrosive, self-defeating...
Research: Generational wealth matters
Income at life events represents the many ways that generational wealth can drive the contrast in incomes between white and Black households.
Ellen O. White receives Student Aspiration Merit Award
Her presentation, titled “Quantifying highway agency roadside tree removal using high-resolution satellite data,” reviewed large-scale tree removal by state highway agencies along roadsides.
Political partisanship in transportation overshadows strong overall support for reform
Transportation has long been viewed as one of the more reliable areas of agreement in Congress but has now become another front in the partisan wars. Look no further for evidence than the current Senate infrastructure bill, which seems to please few beside those who...
A Place for Ethics
An in-depth discussion about ethics and its application in informing planning, policy and public health, and how law can be impoverished without ethics.
Study reveals effect Philly sweetened beverage tax has had on city, economy
A new study from Rutgers economists shows the Philadelphia sweetened beverage tax created at least as many jobs as it cost in the four-and-a-half years since it passed. The study confirms two prior studies that found the tax had no net effect on overall...
ROI Influencers: People of Color 2021 — Difference Makers
Bloustein School Dean Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah has been named to ROI-NJ’s list of the 2021 ROI Influencers: People of Color ROI.NJ, September 22, 2021
Philadelphia’s soda tax added jobs thanks to increased funding for child care, a new study says
The Rutgers study took a macroeconomic approach in an attempt to look at the ripple effects of the tax, and not just its impact on directly affected industries. Michael L. Lahr, a public policy professor at Rutgers and the study’s primary author, said he expected to...
Philadelphia’s Pre-K program, funded by Beverage Tax, helps the city’s children, families, and economy
The release of the study comes in the context of a larger national debate about increasing public funding for child care and pre-K programs.
Rural planner: Frank Popper and the Buffalo Commons
Discussing the Buffalo Commons, its history, its significance, and the current economic and environmental signs that confirm the idea that the depopulated center of the country should capitalize on its heritage as the home of the buffalo.