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...
July 30, 2015 | In the News
It is important to acknowledge the significant role these two programs have had on American society despite initial opposition. Today marks the 50th birthday of Medicare and Medicaid — our two principal health care programs. … Some will view these two programs...
July 27, 2015 | In the News
While New Jersey’s unemployment has dropped 3.7 percentage points from a post-recession high of 9.8 percent when he was sworn in, the state ranked 47th in job growth under Christie and its $83 billion unfunded pension liability continues to grow. New Jersey’s credit...
July 23, 2015 | In the News
The building, designed by Eero Saarinen in the early ‘60s, has a storied past as the home of Nobel Prize-winning research at Bell Labs, its longtime sole occupier. (Key parts of the discovery of the Big Bang Theory happened there.) Those were boom times for the whole...
July 22, 2015 | In the News
New Jersey’s job market, which showed signs of life early this year, slumped in June, leaving the Garden State 36th in job growth nationwide, according to statistics released during the past week. “I have a feeling this is that pattern of three steps forward, one step...
July 20, 2015 | In the News
“If you had $2 million 20 years ago and wanted upscale living, the urban options weren’t very good,” Hughes said. “Now, there’s Brooklyn and the Gold Coast — you have options today that are far greater than was historically the case.” NJBiz.com, June...
July 20, 2015 | In the News
What helped promote, and even necessitate, this openness was The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, said Alexandra Lopez, assistant professor at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School, where she teaches “Drugs, Culture and Society.” The law mandates...
July 20, 2015 | In the News
Even if New Jersey raises its taxes on gasoline, transportation experts say such funding sources won’t sustain transit operations for the decades to come. Automobiles are becoming more fuel-efficient, they note, and younger people are choosing public transit over...
July 17, 2015 | In the News
“The plane is struggling, going up and down and side to side,” says Hooshang Amirahmadi, a Rutgers professor and President of the American Iranian Council, a nonprofit working to improve U.S.-Iranian relations, recalling a flight in Iran about a dozen years ago. NPR...
July 17, 2015 | In the News
“But we’re getting there.” The drop in the unemployment rate is significant, but not really cause for celebration, said Rutgers economist James Hughes. Newsworks.org, July 17
July 16, 2015 | In the News
In a recent article published in The New York Times, Cliff Zukin, professor of political science at Rutgers University and past president of the American Association for Public Policy Opinion Research, explained that political polling is in crisis as statisticians...
July 15, 2015 | In the News
“But the Hoboken system has its drawbacks as well, according to Michael Smart, a professor in the Bloustein School at Rutgers who specializes in transportation policy. Smart-lock systems can sometimes make it tough to find an available bike, and docking stations...
July 15, 2015 | In the News
Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University has devoted most of his career to advocating for a normalization of U.S./Iran relations and the lifting of the sanctions regime. The Intercept, July 14
July 14, 2015 | In the News
The Somerset County Business Partnership has announced that the July Fifth Friday Friars Public Policy Luncheon on Friday, July 31 will feature professor Robert W. Burchell and senior fellow Larry Burrows, who led the Bloustein School’s graduate studio that...
July 14, 2015 | In the News
The research, conducted by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, found that veterans with disabilities living in transit-oriented developments – mixed-use residential and commercial land uses...
July 13, 2015 | In the News
The roadmap to lead the millennial generation to Somerset County, New Jersey was outlined in the recently released study, Somerset County Development Opportunities: A Millennial Perspective. Researched and prepared by graduate students in the Fall 2014 Duke Farms...
July 13, 2015 | In the News
James Hughes, dean of the Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, an expert on demographics, housing and New Jersey economics, said some struggling suburban malls could have a similar conversion in their future — as mixed-use...
July 13, 2015 | In the News
I’ve been writing about fracking for some time now, here, and, here, among other places and with many others, urging restraint. In the nation’s rush for energy independence, and the desire of states and individual property owners to cash in, we may be...
July 10, 2015 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, Assistant Director of Local Government Search at Rutgers Bloustein School, joined the council in an effort to explain the benefits of shared services. TapInto.com, July 9
