May 1, 2015 | In the News
By encouraging everyone in your organization to be “technologically proficient,” you can lower your risk of a cyber attack or data breach By Marc Pfeiffer, Assistant Director, Bloustein Local Government Research Center and Senior Advisor, NJ-GMIS New Jersey...
May 1, 2015 | In the News
Jon Carnegie, executive director of the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers who is also involved with Together North Jersey, said young people like to live in places such as Hoboken, Jersey City “and maybe Morristown.” Those places have much to...
April 29, 2015 | In the News
The delay in replenishing the state’s Transportation Trust Fund for road and bridge repairs could make things worse, said Martin Robins, director emeritus of the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers. Newsworks.org, April 29
April 28, 2015 | In the News
Anton Nelessen, a professor of urban planning and design at Rutgers University, conducted the survey, as he has in 167 cities in the United States and many others around the world. Nelessen recalls resistance bordering on hostility to his work in Macon. He heard the...
April 28, 2015 | In the News
A recent forecast by Rutgers University economist Nancy Mantell projected that New Jersey wouldn’t reach its prerecession peak of 4.09 million jobs until mid-2017. By contrast, the national economy had recovered all the jobs it lost in the recession by May 2014....
April 27, 2015 | In the News
Julia Sass Rubin, a Rutgers University professor, told the newspaper that state lawmakers’ lack of financial expertise makes them vulnerable to outside firms that are pushing for the creation of tax-credits programs that disproportionately benefit investors....
April 27, 2015 | In the News
Joel Cantor, director of Rutgers Center for Health Policy, said the Medicaid eligibility expansion was Christie’s most important healthcare decision. NJSpotlight.com, April 27
April 27, 2015 | In the News
Economist James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said that although the state is doing worse than the nation in the U-6 category — the national average was 12 percent — there are signs of hope that the...
April 27, 2015 | In the News
All new buildings in the University are also set to new regulations as well, Kornitas said. The Rutgers Center for Green Building advises and benchmarks buildings for sustainability and efficiency, and new construction projects use recycled carbon and low CO2 paint....
April 25, 2015 | In the News
Whatever the final costs, several transportation experts described the arrangement as a waste of money. Martin E. Robins, former deputy executive director of NJ Transit and founding director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, said...
April 24, 2015 | In the News
“We are thrilled to welcome the Somerset County Business Partnership as a partner in this effort. They are outstanding leaders,” commented Judy Shaw, Ph.D., AICP/PP, Director, Sustainable Raritan River Initiative. nj.com, April 24
April 23, 2015 | In the News
“They’ve delayed being launched,” said Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers University professor who has studied generational changes on American society. “They’re going to delay marriage, having jobs, kids, buying houses.” The combination of...
April 21, 2015 | In the News
NorthJersey.com, April 21
April 20, 2015 | In the News
“We are not talking about a disaster movie here,” said Carl Van Horn, director for the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, who is a member of the New Start New Jersey advisory board. “But we are talking about...
April 20, 2015 | In the News
Courier-Post, April 20
April 19, 2015 | In the News
He quotes Judy Shaw, director of the Sustainable Raritan Initiative at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, as saying that the Raritan is “a hidden river.” MyCentralJersey.com, April 19
April 17, 2015 | In the News, News
First-year MPP graduate student Brianna Keys attended and worked as a student assistant at the APPAM spring 2015 conference, How Policymakers Use APPAM Member Research, on April 11 in Washington, DC. The goal of the spring APPAM conference was to begin a dialogue...
April 17, 2015 | In the News
James Hughes, a Rutgers economist, said that the first quarter’s growth pace translates into an annual addition of 34,000 jobs – about the same number as last year. NorthJersey.com, April 16
