Will Trump Kill Obamacare?

Stuart Shapiro, a regulation law expert at Rutgers University, described the regulatory process constraints that any new president faces in an article for The Hill published last December. A new administration can avoid implementing any relatively new regulations....

How four Trump issues may affect NJ's economy

As talk now turns to the transition of power, there’s a new focus on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s economic policy proposals. Those measures, as they take shape, would cause ripples throughout New Jersey. “Business hates uncertainty,” said...

Rutgers students react to surprise Trump victory

The election was surprising, said Joseph Epstein, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Health senior. “Hearing the numbers be way off from projections for both of them showed me that nobody knew what was flying with this election,” he said. But the results did not...

What a Trump presidency means for the ACA

Stuart Shapiro, a regulation law expert at Rutgers University, described the regulatory process constraints that any new president faces in an article for The Hill published back in December. A new administration can avoid implementing any relatively new regulations....

Segregation persists in modern-day schools

Thalya Reyes is an Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy master’s candidate for public policy and city and regional planning. Her column, “Concrete Jungle Gym,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson...

US tech firms turn to Africa-based developers

However, some studies suggest there is no shortage in skilled STEM programmers. Hal Salzman, a professor at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, said “the supply of graduates is substantially larger than the demand for them in...

Sandy showed coastal vulnerabilty

But increasingly, those owning coastal properties are the wealthy, and the panel predicted that trend will continue. “My conclusion is the real choice is not between rebuilding or retreating, but between gentrification or retreating,” said Clinton J. Andrews, Rutgers...