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MHA Candidate: Yasir Shakoor
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are challenged with keeping abreast of fast policy changes to the healthcare system and we must be able to quickly adapt to said changes.
Paul Butler discusses prison reform, what could replace incarceration at Bloustein Memorial lecture
Professor Butler emphasized that alternatives to prison must be transformative, creating positive change.
Charles Brown selected as inaugural fellow for Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis
The Fellowship is part of The OpEd Project’s national initiative to “change who writes history.”
Planning students selected for prestigious Port Authority Leadership Fellow Program
Over 250 grad students applied; Chase Palmer and Rebecca Weiss were 2 of the 5 finalists selected.
Jeanne Herb participates in Rutgers School of Public Health symposium on climate change
The webinar highlighted the significant impacts of climate change on public health.
Why black Americans are at higher risk for coronavirus
The widespread shutdown of non-essential businesses has hurt black and Hispanic workers at a higher rate. William Rodgers, chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, estimated that the true rate of unemployment is likely...
COVID-19 testing failure falls primarily on Trump administration
Any assignment of responsibility must recognize that doing so is complicated. A disaster of the magnitude of the spread of the COVID-19 virus has no single origin. But at the same time, this complexity should not deter us from trying to understand what happened. While...
People die if we don’t have a clear, unified message about the virus
In a crisis, consistent, responsible, and factual information needs to be disseminated by all sources regardless of political affiliation. The deep divide between conservatives and liberals has sadly manifested in creating a divided American society. This divide is...
Cafeteria workers need support during the COVID-19 pandemic
The halls of K-12 schools across the country are eerily quiet, as teachers and students stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Yet cafeteria workers are reporting to work, figuring out innovative ways to serve children free, nutritious school meals in...
Early coronavirus job losses hitting minorities, women, teens particularly hard
The pandemic has so far resulted in 701,000 lost jobs according to the March jobs report. And that doesn't even include the nearly 10 million people who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. While the unemployment rate increased to 4.4% from 3.5% in the...
Pay no attention to Friday’s jobs numbers
William Rodgers, professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, said he expected the unemployment rate to soon surpass the Great Recession high of 10%. “What is so chilling is that that took...
Coronavirus batters US economy as 6.65m file for unemployment last week
The US now faces the sharpest rise in unemployment in its history, a surge that is already highlighting income inequality across the nation and comes as the global economy goes into a nosedive that is likely to exacerbate the situation in the months ahead....