May 16, 2016 | Alumni Spotlight, Career, News
In keeping with Rutgers’s motto of “Jersey Roots, Global Reach,” Bloustein students had the opportunity to visit the United Nations headquarters in April to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN’s role in peacekeeping throughout the world. Arranged by...
May 10, 2016 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, Rutgers University’s Bloustein School Local Government Research Center senior policy fellow and assistant director, said that he believed ticket surcharges were the most convenient way to finance these funds. “The legislature has a lot of...
May 9, 2016 | In the News
Anger about stagnant wages, among other things, has helped fuel the presidential runs of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. When the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University surveyed Americans after the recession about the causes of high...
May 9, 2016 | In the News
ut even as New Jersey’s unemployment rate has been ahead of the national average all year, the state lost nearly 2,000 jobs during the first three months of 2016, stumping New Jersey economists. “I think this is a real headscratcher,” said James Hughes, dean of the...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
New Jersey has regained 91 percent of the jobs lost during the recession. Nancy Mantell, the director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, predicts the balance will be recovered by early next year. The most job growth over the next decade will be in education and...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
“Is slow-go now the new economic normal for New Jersey? It kind of looks that way,” said James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. “Our once great 20th century suburban job creation machine has really faltered in...
May 6, 2016 | In the News
“This was the state’s best performance since 2000,” said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON). “We should recover the balance by early 2017, and by the end of the forecast period in 2026, the employment base should be 370,000 jobs,...
April 30, 2016 | News, Urban Planning Studios
In early April, a group of Bloustein School students traveled to Atlantic City to present two different neighborhood plans to the Atlantic City Planning Board. In front of an eager audience, the media, and the viewing public, Dan Brooks, Molly Coon, Katelyn Hansen,...
April 29, 2016 | In the News
The concept of “Smart Cities” incorporates improving the quality of life by using technology to improve the efficiency of city services and meet residents’ needs. This program will explain Smart City technology such as: saving energy, adding security, creating...
April 21, 2016 | Alumni Spotlight, News
Bill Cesanek MCRP ’77, AICP, Vice President at CDM Smith and Chair of APA’s Water Task Force, talks about the state of water issues in planning and provides an update on the work of the Water Task Force in a video feature by the American Planning...
