October 6, 2015 | In the News
In a new Rutgers study focusing on older part-time workers, 71 percent said changes in Social Security benefits was the most important policy change the federal government could make. These part-time workers, age 50-plus, also said the minimum wage should be raised,...
October 5, 2015 | In the News
But 1 in 5 find themselves in a situation similar to Ellis-Johnson’s, concludes a recent study by Rutgers University’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development in New Brunswick, N.J. “The number of people struggling has remained high,”...
October 5, 2015 | In the News
“Polls are being used to do a job that they’re really not intended for — and they’re not as qualified for as they used to be,” said Cliff Zukin, a professor at Rutgers University and past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Zukin warned...
October 4, 2015 | In the News
“Wright State is going to be the kind of poster child for the kinds of abuses that are occurring under the guest worker program,” said Hal Salzman, a senior fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Wright State is under...
October 3, 2015 | In the News
Professor Carl Van Horn and his colleagues at Rutgers University this spring did an in-depth survey of 944 workers, 504 of whom were involuntary part-time workers and 440 who were part-timers by choice. They were a sample of the 26 million Americans who hold part-time...
October 2, 2015 | In the News
There’s overwhelming evidence that road diets reduce collisions, with some federal studies suggesting an average decline of 19 percent in places like New Brunswick. Of course, these safety upgrades tend to result in slower traffic, a price public officials are often...
October 2, 2015 | In the News
Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, or R/ECON, wasn’t bullish on New Jersey’s immediate employment future at a September conference. She said the state added 27,700 new jobs last year, which was 17,400 fewer than 2013. Mantell’s...
October 1, 2015 | In the News
Who cares about obesity, heart disease and diabetes? Health-care providers, guardians of the public’s health, insurance companies that cover the costs of disease, among others but, not, unfortunately, the organizations that ought to be in the forefront of the...
October 1, 2015 | In the News
“Improving job access continues to be one of the most important priorities for transportation planners,” said Dr. Smart. “But policy-makers and researchers debate whether this goal is better served by investments in public transportation or increasing access to...
October 1, 2015 | In the News
Robert Curvin, a distinguished alumnus, a visiting scholar and professor in Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and a staunch friend of Rutgers University-Newark, has passed away at 81. He was a loyal son of Newark, a city he loved...
September 30, 2015 | In the News
He also spent his final years serving his original alma mater, Rutgers-Newark, as well as serving as visiting scholar and professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy on the university’s New Brunswick campus. NJ.com, September...
September 29, 2015 | News
The Bloustein School mourns the passing of Dr. Robert Curvin, a distinguished alumnus of Rutgers-Newark, a Senior Policy Fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and a civil rights leader and world-renowned expert on urban politics,...
September 26, 2015 | In the News
The demographic of home buyers is also changing, said Dr. James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. “Ten thousand baby boomers per day are leaving the labor force, and to a large degree they represent yesterday’s...
September 26, 2015 | In the News
It was inspired by a NYT op-ed column by Rutgers political scientist Cliff Zukin wrote in June that detailed the “near crisis” now facing election polls, which has made “high-quality research much more expensive.” That trend, Zukin argued, has...
September 25, 2015 | In the News
On Thursday night, we live-streamed “Chris Christie’s New Jersey: An Evening with Tom Moran & Friends” in front of an audience from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy forum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick....
September 24, 2015 | In the News
Several groups, from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, came together to make New Brunswick’s PARK(ing) Day happen. At least two of those groups are related to Rutgers: the Rutgers Student Chapter of the NJ American Society of Landscape Architects...
September 23, 2015 | In the News
Though New Jersey’s economy is performing better than in 2014, it will continue to grow more slowly than the nation’s through 2025 before keeping pace with the national rate over the next 20 years, said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory...
