October 20, 2015 | Alumni Spotlight, News
The N.J. Work Environment Council (WEC) has selected Dan Fatton, an environmentalist, community activist and fundraiser as its new Executive Director. Fatton was selected after the WEC Board and search committee completed a nationwide search. WEC is a nonprofit...
October 20, 2015 | In the News
Traffic expert and Rutgers professor Charles Brown, who was brought in as a consultant and planner for the committee, played host to crowd that packed the West Orange High School lunch room— eager to lend their opinion on how the town can improve road safety. Brown...
October 20, 2015 | In the News
And those zombie homes also make it difficult for people who live nearby the rundown properties to sell their house, said Rutgers University economist James Hughes. “Those properties in urban areas, in many cases, become potentially crime stimulants,” he...
October 20, 2015 | In the News
The N.J. Work Environment Council (WEC) has selected Dan Fatton, an environmentalist, community activist and fundraiser as its new Executive Director. Fatton was selected after the WEC Board and search committee completed a nationwide search. Fatton grew up in...
October 20, 2015 | In the News
A new program launched on Tuesday aims to help older New Jersey residents who have been out of work for more than six months find jobs in a state with one of the highest long-term unemployment rates in the nation. The New Start Career Network offers...
October 19, 2015 | In the News
James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said the financing snags were unsurprising, given the burst in the housing bubble at the time. “Credit disappeared,” he noted. “Probably it was...
October 16, 2015 | In the News
The study, the latest in the “Work Trends” series of Americans’ attitudes about work, employers and government by Rutgers’ John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development is based on U.S. Census Bureau data and the center’s 2015 survey of part-time workers. It...
October 15, 2015 | In the News
Polls have recently produced “spectacular disasters” in predicting the winners of elections in Israel and Britain and for our own Congress, wrote Cliff Zukin of Rutgers, the former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, in a June op-ed in...
October 15, 2015 | In the News
People are fleeing the climate and congestion, but they’re also leaving because of high property taxes, inheritance taxes, income taxes and business taxes, said James Hughes, economics professor and dean of the Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and...
October 14, 2015 | In the News
York also has created the Lifelong Montclair Guide to Public Transportation developed by the New Jersey Travel Independence Program at the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. The guide helps Montclair’s senior citizens understand...
October 14, 2015 | In the News
While many politicians have been aware of this for some time, a major wakeup call was sounded last year with a report from the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Policy and Planning, which showed a massive shift of population away from the suburban ring of towns...
October 13, 2015 | In the News
“There’s no way to buy a ticket in New Jersey to get to Citi Field,” said Martin Robins, the founding director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University. “You have to go into Penn Station and then stand on line at the [ticket] machines and...
October 13, 2015 | In the News
Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers University political scientist and former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, warns that no one should underestimate the challenges polling faces today. “We are less sure how to conduct good survey research now...
October 12, 2015 | In the News
“The economy is not going to stop growing. It’s still sturdy, but it’s starting to lose steam, so we’ve really downshifted this summer,” said Rutgers University economist James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. He...
October 12, 2015 | In the News
All that said, Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers University political scientist and former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, warns that no one should underestimate the challenges polling faces today. Zukin said there’s a huge issue of figuring...
October 9, 2015 | In the News
Cliff Zukin, a professor of public policy and political science at Rutgers University, said that makes sense, given the costs involved with doing reliable polling for a place like Gallup. The decision also came after a botched final pre-election poll in 2012 that put...
October 8, 2015 | In the News
The two journalists on the receiving end of those Christie barbs recently joined me for a discussion in front of an audience from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy forum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick a discussion of all things...
