August 28, 2015 | In the News
It is a “complex report about a complex set of questions that Congress wanted answer(ed),” said Michael Greenberg, chairman of the Omnibus Risk Review Committee and faculty dean of the Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. The committee will listen...
August 26, 2015 | In the News
Atlantic City’s mounting job losses are holding back a painfully slow economic recovery for New Jersey as a whole, a Rutgers economist said in a study released Tuesday. Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service, or R/ECON, said the four casinos...
August 25, 2015 | In the News
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) student Brandon Williams is the recipient of a 2015 APTF Scholarship. All member organizations of the American Public...
August 24, 2015 | In the News
The name says it all: the New Jersey Transportation Independence Program, or NJTIP. The nonprofit organization provides educational assistance to Jersey residents on how to travel around the region on mass transportation. Recently, representatives of NJTIP visited the...
August 20, 2015 | In the News
There’s no way to sugarcoat the news,” said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. For the second month in a row, New Jersey lost thousands of jobs. The new July figures show the state losing 13,600...
August 20, 2015 | In the News
The names James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca will be familiar to anyone who follows New Jersey economics and public policy. Hughes is professor and dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Seneca is Distinguished...
August 19, 2015 | In the News
Chris Christie’s campaign for president is on the rocks. His popularity among New Jersey voters is at or near all-time lows. And the governor’s to-do list in Trenton is a mile long. So what are we to make of all this, New Jersey? We’re gonna dig in...
August 19, 2015 | In the News
The use of the earlier surveys will hurt the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, who barely registered in the polls before the Aug. 6 Fox News debate. But since then, she has seen a significant bounce. “It acts as sort of an anchor on those people who had done poorly early...
August 15, 2015 | In the News
The recently-introduced First Amendment Defense Act, co-sponsored by over 100 members of Congress, shares its origins with the same mentality that created Jim Crow laws following the Civil War as well as the less formal but still violent anti-black discrimination that...
August 13, 2015 | In the News
A similar proposal is being developed by former NJ Transit executives Martin Robins and D.C. Agrawal. Robins, the founding director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, was the project director of ARC, the earlier trans-Hudson tunnel project that...
August 10, 2015 | In the News
Rutgers economist James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said companies employing between five and 25 workers — such as “mom and pop” businesses — are the biggest job creators, and their thirst for new capital is a...
August 8, 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...
August 5, 2015 | In the News
Have things gotten so bad that we expect so little? Case in point: The legislation to “reform” the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It’s been 94 years since the Authority was created, and it’s not easy to make changes given that the...
August 3, 2015 | In the News, News
Jocelyn Crowley has researched how women feel about the supposedly raging “mommy wars” and wrote an article which appeared in the journal Sociological Inquiry earlier this spring. At the very center of her findings is the power of intensive mothering ideology, which...
August 3, 2015 | In the News
The government is notoriously bad at predictions involving specific jobs, said Rutgers University professor Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. “It’s a general direction,” Van Horn said. But, he said, the...
July 31, 2015 | In the News
If Somerset County wants to attract more millennials to live and work here, then it must develop a brand to attract a generation that will be larger than the baby-boomer generation. That’s the general message delivered in a report written by graduate students in...
July 31, 2015 | In the News
Charles Dickens’ famous phrase opening “A Tale of Two Cities” — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — lends itself to a new study by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Professor Carl Van Horn and his colleagues at Rutgers University...
July 31, 2015 | In the News
What Medicaid is beginning to discover, much of the world has already learned: Health is complex and encompasses more than just medicine. NJSpotlight, Guest Column by Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy and distinguished professor of Public...
