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New Jersey public schools are losing students. Why? And where are they going?
Fewer and fewer children are attending public schools in New Jersey. Across the Garden State, public school enrollment dropped by nearly 36,000 students between 2012-13 and 2022-23, according to analysis by the Asbury Park Press. The drops are causing budget strains...
ROI.NJ – Rutgers launches climate and energy institute with wide-reaching goals
Rutgers University – New Brunswick will soon serve as a locus for scholarship on climate change, renewable energy production, energy conservation and their environmental dimensions, according to a recent announcement from the Middlesex County institution’s leaders....
New Heldrich Report Measures NJ Workers’ Awareness and Opinions of the State’s Sick Leave Law and Family Leave Insurance Program
The study, conducted with support from WorkRise at the Urban Institute, captures the perceptions and experiences of racial and ethnic discrimination at work with a nationally representative survey sample of 3,277 full- and part-time U.S. workers.
NJSPL – The Relationship Between New Jerseyans’ Digital Literacy, Perceptions of E-Government, & Trust in the State Government
Researchers found that citizens who feel that the e-government services they utilize are effective have a more positive perception and trust in the government as a whole, and that higher levels of citizens’ digital literacy strengthen the relationship between satisfaction with e-government services and trust in the government.
Rutgers Launches Climate and Energy Institute With Wide-Reaching Goals
Institute will combine and unify the strengths of three existing institutes on climate, environment and energy research Financial support for the new institute will include $2.5 million from the Chancellor Challenge which will be awarded over three years, and...
Americans Quitting Jobs Even as Savings Dry Up, Debt Grows
A rising number of Americans are quitting their jobs even as their savings deplete and personal debt rises. New data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the number of job openings in the United States grew unexpectedly during the month of August. Stressed...
EJB Talks New Faculty Spotlight: Bernadette Baird-Zars and Gray Institutions
Bernadette Baird-Zars research interests span land use, governance, construction permitting, and the role of community-based organizations in reshaping planning processes.
US Supreme Court won’t consider challenge to New Jersey’s ballot rigging
The United States Supreme Court refused to hear a pivotal case aimed at challenging New Jersey’s controversial ballot laws in a decision not to take up a case that could have threatened the entrenched political establishment’s ability to manipulate the electoral...
NJSPL – New Jersey Ranks First in Income, but Housing Costs Take a Hefty Share Especially for those with Lower Incomes
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Jeanne Herb selected by NSF and the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation to serve as NSF-KADF Ocean Decade Champion
Four Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) members, including Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group (CUPR), and colleagues Lisa Auermuller (SEBS), Victoria Ramenzoni (SEBS), and DeeDee Bennett-Gayle...
TECH UPDATES: What Municipal CAOs Need to Know, Part 1: Tech Fitness and Cyber Hygiene
There are two basic elements of technology that every municipality must have. Most places already do this, but it doesn’t hurt to highlight them. The first is an expert to advise you and your governing body on technology issues. As with other experts you hire—a police...
Four Bloustein Students Chosen as 2024 Eagleton Graduate Fellows
The Eagleton Graduate Fellowship Program, a core education program of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, was one of the first activities undertaken by the Institute after it was established in 1956 with a bequest from Florence Peshine Eagleton. Rutgers graduate...