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...
December 16, 2015 | In the News
We talked to polling experts Al Tuchfarber and Cliff Zukin to explain why such polls are so unreliable and to set the record straight on pre-presidential election survey methodologies and results. Tuchfarber is professor emeritus of political science at the University...
December 16, 2015 | In the News
As expected, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates a quarter of a percent — the first raise since 2006. The increase will probably raise short-term borrowing rates slightly for credit cards and home equity loans, but rates for auto loans, mortgages and college...
December 15, 2015 | In the News
The panelists for the roundtable discussion were Dr. Robert Kopp, Associate Director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, Kate Shackford, Executive Director for GRID Alternatives, and Dr. Frank Felder, Director at the Center for Energy at the Edward J. Bloustein School....
December 14, 2015 | In the News
The Bridgewater-Raritan board of education conducted a climate survey to assess the strengths and weaknesses of district schools for the 2014–2015 school year, and received 3,500 responses. The climate survey is a collaborative effort between the Rutgers Bloustein...
December 13, 2015 | In the News
So what does this mean for Garden State residents? “A continuation of low oil prices will be extraordinarily positive for the New Jersey economy,” says James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University....
December 12, 2015 | In the News
If voters were to approve the amendment and the state contributed its share to the pension system, he said, “you would quickly be faced with the question of, ‘Well, how do I plug the rest of the budget we’ve now consumed?’ ” That question...
