May 28, 2015 | In the News
The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy would study the impact of tax incentive programs that the state is increasingly using to attract and … Asbury Park Press.com, May 27
May 28, 2015 | In the News
…the state Economic Development Authority is expected to finalize a deal with the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to analyze the state’s two major tax incentive programs: the Grow New Jersey Assistance Program and the Economic...
May 28, 2015 | In the News
“Private-sector job growth stalled in April,” Rutgers University economist James W. Hughes said. He added that the state remains on target to have its … Asbury Park Press, May 27
May 28, 2015 | In the News
…the EDA is finalizing an agreement this week with Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy that will create both a one-time and recurring annual evaluation of the Grow New Jersey Assistance Program and the Economic...
May 26, 2015 | In the News
A fellowship to Rutgers gave Ioanna Tsoulou the stepping stone she needed to escape the financial crisis in Greece and pursue her passion for building better cities. As a result of a guiding hand from professors at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
May 26, 2015 | In the News
By Linda Stamato | NJ Voices It’s graduation season, and, with it, appear profiles of promising graduates, sketches of the families who provided encouragement and support and now, at Rutgers, specifically at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences on...
May 23, 2015 | In the News
Judy Auer Shaw, a researcher at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, was the host of a discussion group and book signing on April 30 at the Raritan Public Library to commemorate the release of her new book, “The Raritan...
May 22, 2015 | In the News
James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, took part in a federally funded study last year that put Sussex County’s plight in context. “This is a broader, regional story that goes beyond New Jersey,”...
May 21, 2015 | In the News
Julia Sass Rubin, the mother of a seventh-grader in New Jersey and a founder of Save Our Schools New Jersey, a group that is critical of the test, said the reduced time is a good first step. But she said cutting the test back to once a year does not address all the...
May 21, 2015 | In the News
Verizon Communications’ record-breaking $650 million sale-leaseback of its operations center in Basking Ridge, NJ is “not too shabby a transaction,” says Jim Hughes, dean of the Bloustein at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, who predicted the current flood of such...
May 18, 2015 | In the News
Julia Sass Rubin took aim at a resolution urging the education commissioner to write guidelines on how to deal with students who don’t take the test. “This is saying to the commissioner, ‘whatever you want,’” she said. “It’s very disturbing.” APP.com, May...
May 15, 2015 | In the News
Lesniak on Thursday applauded the EDA for recently disclosing some of the desired information available on its website and for pursuing an arrangement for Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to review the program. The new data show projects...
May 14, 2015 | In the News
Michael Smart, an assistant professor of transportation planning at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said, “For a start, much of the United States is not exactly an ideal market for high-speed rail. Compared to places...
May 13, 2015 | In the News
Between 2009 and 2011, all income increases went to New Jersey’s top 1 percent of earners, according to a 2014 study headed by Norman J. Glickman, a professor at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. In the...
May 11, 2015 | In the News
According to Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, the entering graduate class should be greeted by a job market similar to pre-recession days. “They’re not all going to get jobs right away, but in a few months,...
May 11, 2015 | In the News
Staff members at Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy have formed an organization to help conduct these assessments: the New Jersey Health Impact Collaborative. NJSpotlight, May 11
May 8, 2015 | News
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and The Louis Berger Group are pleased to announce the Louis Berger Graduate Fellows for the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year: Channing Bickford, Jonathan Castaneda, Roman Titov and Ai Yamanaka. Now in its...
May 7, 2015 | In the News
“If the court upholds this, it would be quite significant statewide,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at Rutgers University and a volunteer at Save Our Schools NJ. “It would mean basically that districts would not have to fund charter spots for...
May 6, 2015 | In the News
“It’s part of the good story of the economy slowly recovering. When you compare it to the situation even a year or two years ago, we’re in much better shape. That means there are more summer jobs. I think a source of those jobs, the Jersey Shore, is in better shape...
May 1, 2015 | In the News
Efforts to cut school funding as retribution for parental refusals are more likely to prompt the opposite political response NJ Spotlight Op-ed by Julia Sass Rubin and Monty Neill, May 1
