June 26, 2016 | In the News
By Julia Sass Rubin Gov. Chris Christie announced a radical â and dishonest â proposal this week: a new school funding formula that he claimed would provide each public school district with $6,599 per enrolled student without discontinuing aid for special needs...
June 26, 2016 | In the News
Burlington County Times, June 26 (subscription required)
June 14, 2016 | In the News
Bloustein Dean James W. Hughes named among 25 most influential people in New Jersey by NJ.com. Click to visit page NJ.com, June 13
May 24, 2016 | In the News
As the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act marks its twentieth anniversary, researchers are still exploring the impact of this law, called “welfare reform.” Although this law’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program helps...
May 18, 2016 | In the News
But critics are still concerned about the children charters do not take from the traditional public schools. “The charters kind of cream off the less expensive, easier to educate students,” said Dr. Julia Sass Rubin, an associate professor at Rutgers University Edward...
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...
