September 11, 2015 | In the News
“Permitting juniors to make use of AP or IB exams as an alternative of PARCC looks like an effort by the administration to save lots of face in mild of the very excessive PARCC refusal charges, notably amongst 11th-graders,” stated Julia Sass Rubin, a volunteer with...
September 10, 2015 | News
Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles will present the 2015 Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture, “The High Cost of Free Parking,” on Thursday, October 1 at 5:30 p.m. at the Special...
September 10, 2015 | News
More than 7.5 million part-time American workers are 50 years of age or older. For the slightly more than four in five who are working part time because they do not want a full-time job, their jobs are satisfying and fulfilling. Nearly half (46%) are working full time...
September 10, 2015 | In the News
But “all credible research finds the same evidence about the STEM workforce: ample supply, stagnant wages and, by industry accounts, thousands of applicants for any advertised job,” according to Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers...
September 8, 2015 | In the News
Charles Brown, a senior research specialist at Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, announced that he is willing to have his fall graduate class of civil engineering students from Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
September 8, 2015 | In the News
For a study to be credible, it must be compiled by an outfit acceptable to both states, Amtrak and to Congress – such as the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. It has to measure economic factors like added tax revenues from...
September 8, 2015 | In the News
James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said the state shed manufacturing jobs rapidly during the recession and at a slower pace as the post-recession recovery took hold, rarely adding jobs....
September 3, 2015 | In the News
No one has been more affected by the surge of Donald Trump in the polls than the pundits who obsess with elections. Much ink has been spilled trying to answer questions like “What does it mean?” and “What does it say about us as a country?” The...
September 3, 2015 | In the News
The company’s electric transmission upgrades alone are creating an average 6,000 jobs a year, for 10 years, according to a study by Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. New Jersey, as a whole, netted 29,000 jobs in...
September 3, 2015 | In the News
The city wants to steer mixed-income development to all its neighborhoods with clever tax incentives. “[The PILOT plan] been instrumental for moving housing away from the waterfront, which was the original location of the market housing,” says James Hughes, dean of...
September 2, 2015 | In the News
Cliff Zukin, who teaches public policy and political science at Rutgers, calls the pollsters’ misfires “spectacular disasters.” He says they’re caused by two trends. First, a plummeting response rate. And second, the proliferation of cell phones. Pollsters aren’t...
September 2, 2015 | In the News
The story of thalidomide is at once a tragedy of international scope, and, given the FDA’s refusal to allow it to be dispensed in America, a paean to heroism and courage at home. It’s a tribute, especially, to Frances Oldham Kelsey, a young pharmacologist...
September 1, 2015 | In the News
Fears and reality: TOD efforts often encounter fear of overdevelopment, including the financial burden of educating more children and, ironically, increased automotive traffic]. In reality, transit-oriented developments tend to have smaller households with fewer...
September 1, 2015 | In the News
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Director Joel Cantor offered a possible explanation for why the increase in employer-covered workers is occurring: Workers are choosing to accept employer coverage that they may have turned down previously, because they were...
August 31, 2015 | In the News
After reviewing various difficulties with real-world polling,Cliff Zukin (professor of public policy and political science at the School for Planning and Public Policy and at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University) concludes: Those paying close...
August 28, 2015 | In the News
Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, said such shortages are partly the product of an improving economy and the dual trends of older workers in the field retiring, and younger workers less interested in training...
