January 19, 2016 | In the News
While some experts point to New Jersey’s high cost of living, very high taxes and burdensome regulations having a negative impact on economic growth, James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University believes...
January 18, 2016 | In the News
In 2002, Robert B. Noland, a professor and director of many programs at Rutgers’ E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, crunched 14 years of traffic fatality data from all 50 states. He concluded that “results strongly refute the hypothesis that...
January 18, 2016 | In the News
“Between 2010 and 2015, New Jersey had a net domestic migration loss of 269,194 people — that is a net figure: 269,194 more people moved from New Jersey to the rest of the country than people from the rest of country moved to New Jersey,” said James W....
January 14, 2016 | In the News
“The state can make some tough decisions that are very, very difficult for local officials to make because of local political pressures. For example, you have to cut costs in Atlantic City in order to reflect what the city is today, not what it was 25 years ago, when...
January 11, 2016 | In the News
Linda Stamato is a guest columnist for The Star-Ledger. She is a co-director of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and a faculty fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. NJ.com, January...
January 9, 2016 | In the News
Paul Siracusa is a co-author of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy’s “Promises Made, Promises Broken” student report on gambling in New Jersey. NJ.com, January 9
January 8, 2016 | In the News
Many of New Jersey’s local governments are ill equipped to safeguard against the risks inherent in managing their networks and working with citizens’ data, according to the results of a new report. The study, prepared by researchers at Rutgers University’s Bloustein...
January 8, 2016 | In the News
Reasons people have left the labor force include going back to school, becoming ill or disabled, staying home to care for children or elders, taking early retirement, and becoming discouraged about one’s ability to get a job at all. Economist William Rodgers at...
January 5, 2016 | In the News
Linda Stamato is a co-director of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy and a Faculty Fellow at Rutgers University. NJ.com, January 5
January 5, 2016 | In the News
Hughes said the latest generation of workers, the Millennials, want to live and work, not to mention play, in the same place, in particular urban areas that include the Hudson waterfront. “Jersey City has the housing, that’s certainly a positive in terms...
January 4, 2016 | In the News
“These (CAPCO funds) are actors who consistently exploit the taxpayers and exploit these programs that are intended for stimulating the economy,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University...
January 4, 2016 | In the News
New Jersey has been the scene of revolutionary warfare, manmade catastrophes and devastating storms, but nothing has transformed our state like the Baby Boom, the unparalleled population explosion unleashed by the end of World War II. As veterans returned from the...
January 3, 2016 | In the News
A new survey from CareerBuilder finds that one in five employees (21 percent) pledge to leave their current job by the end of 2016. That is a 5 percent jump since last year. Even starker, 30 percent of younger employees, ages 18 to 34, expect to have a new job by...
December 31, 2015 | In the News
Ever since the Great Recession officially ended five years ago, the New Jersey economy has been lagging behind the rest of the nation, but new data suggests the Garden State may finally be turning a corner. “We added 31,200 jobs in 2014, but it looks like we’ll add...
December 27, 2015 | In the News
A Q&A with Paul G. E. Clemens, a veteran Rutgers history professor, author of “Rutgers since 1945: A History of the State University of New Jersey,” NJ.com, December 27
December 26, 2015 | In the News
While Gallup’s inaccuracies came as a shock to the political community, they are representative of a bigger problem: the inaccuracies of phone polling, which have only gotten worse. Traditional polling by landline phone has grown more difficult as fewer people are...
December 18, 2015 | In the News
Criticism such as Fecteau’s has been heard since 2000, when Congress created the federal New Markets Tax Credit program, upon which Maine’s program is based, said Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
December 18, 2015 | In the News
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Director Joel Cantor said that New Jersey is a “a little bit late to the game” of hospital consolidation that’s associated with higher prices elsewhere. “There’s a very solid body of research showing that (in) more consolidated...
December 17, 2015 | In the News
To top it off, the huge millennial generation in its 20s and 30s has migrated to cities instead of suburbs, Rutgers University economists James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca have found. But there are signs that New Jersey is showing life. The state’s economy...
