September 23, 2015 | News
For at least one day, New Brunswick had far more than just four sister cities. Friday, September 18, 2015, was the annual Park(ing) Day celebration, where cities across the world take on-street parking spaces and turn them into public parklets. The students of Walk...
September 22, 2015 | In the News
Joel Cantor at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy calls it the first comprehensive snapshot of how well the Affordable Care Act is working. “I think the numbers suggest that it is working. They’re a little lower than we projected in terms of total enrollment,...
September 21, 2015 | In the News
The Rutgers—New Brunswick campus was home to more than 2,507 students who identified as adult or non-traditional in Fall 2013, and the University College Community (UCC) was created to support these students, according to its website. Dona Schneider, who herself...
September 19, 2015 | In the News
New Jersey’s economy 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 Service, at R/ECON’s semiannual...
September 19, 2015 | In the News
The housing shifts are taking place against a backdrop of slow growth in the state, said Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service. “New Jersey is still in the process of recovering from the recession,” Mantell said. NorthJersey.com,...
September 18, 2015 | In the News
New Jersey, where job growth lags behind the nation’s, won’t return to peak employment until mid-2017, a Rutgers University economist predicted. Though the state’s economy is performing better this year than in 2014, it will continue to grow more slowly than the U.S....
September 18, 2015 | In the News
New Jersey’s economic growth will lag the nation for quite a while, but a full rebound from the recession is coming soon, according to a brand new economic forecast. In the report released Friday by the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, national and statewide...
September 18, 2015 | In the News
Atlantic Cape Community College and Rutgers University signed a conditional dual admission agreement for four Rutgers degrees this month. The agreements enable students who complete an associate degree at Atlantic Cape seamless continuation toward a Bachelor of...
September 18, 2015 | 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 Service,...
September 17, 2015 | In the News
“We need a long-term, sustainable transportation bill, which doesn’t exist,” said Paul Larrousse, director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University and an expert in transportation finance. ABC News, September 16
September 17, 2015 | In the News
Michael L. Lahr, s research professor at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, said the estimated employment gains in what the study characterized as the warehousing industry seemed “excessive” by historical...
September 17, 2015 | In the News
But prosperity isn’t returning to every household. On Wednesday, William Rodgers, a Rutgers University economist who studies the changing American workforce, told the audience for WNPR’s Marketplace that the economy is producing too many jobs that pay the bare minimum...
September 17, 2015 | In the News
Last December, a Rutgers economist said the state’s “jobs recovery is a non-event.” Nancy Mantell also cited statistics showing New Jersey near the bottom of the national list of jobs regained since the depth of that recession. Press of Atlantic City, September...
September 16, 2015 | In the News
Eighty percent of New Jersey office space was built in the 1980s, according to James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. “That was considered leading-edge inventory,” Hughes said in an interview....
September 16, 2015 | In the News
Ground is shifting under local, state and federal tax exemption policy and practice prompted by excesses, abuses and, simply, in the case of property tax exemptions, by the inequitable impact on municipalities that provide costly services that are, essentially, free...
September 15, 2015 | In the News
A survey at the start of the study found that many adults on the autism spectrum and their families know about transportation options but most don’t use them. Like Katie, a majority of autistic adults (68 percent) get rides from parents and family members to get where...
September 14, 2015 | In the News
Well being care prices in New Jersey are among the many nation’s highest, with longer hospital stays and a few high quality of care points. “This can be one of the vital modifications to N.J. well being care in a few years,” stated Joel Cantor, director of the...
September 14, 2015 | In the News
Immigration experts say the arrangement may violate immigration laws designed to prevent staffing agencies from trafficking in cheap labor from overseas. “It has all the appearences of an abuse of the H-1B program,” said Hal Salzman, a senior fellow at the John J....
September 11, 2015 | In the News
The OMNIA Health Alliancea partnership between the insurer and seven providers – six hospitals and the state’s largest doctors group – aims to change how healthcare is paid for and delivered. “It is a very big deal,” said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center...
September 11, 2015 | In the News
“It is a very big deal,” said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and a leading voice on healthcare policy in New Jersey. “I think it’s an impressive plan. It’s a sharp change in direction from where NJ healthcare had been.” AJMC...
