July 12, 2022 | In the News
The idea of automated speed cameras along roadways may get more support from the public, as well as policymakers, if the technology were promoted as a way to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement. That’s according to a new study out of Rutgers University....
July 11, 2022 | In the News
When we saw the words “health benefits fraud” in a headline recently, our first thought was finally, a step toward justice in the massive kickbacks to public employees in South Jersey for submitting bogus prescriptions to their lavishly funded...
July 6, 2022 | In the News
Rutgers economist James Hughes said even if President Joe Biden is able to convince Congress to freeze the 18.4 cent a gallon federal gas tax for the next few months and Gov. Phil Murphy agrees to suspend the state gas tax (an idea he has rejected so far) “that would...
July 6, 2022 | In the News
“It was absolutely shocking to many people that you would take an office building and knock it down, like we used to knock down factories,” said James W. Hughes, a professor at Rutgers. “Now it’s routine.” But in many places, that idea is still settling in. It will...
July 6, 2022 | In the News
Last week, in West Virginia v EPA, the Supreme Court invoked the “major questions doctrine” in determining that the Clean Power Plan issued by the Obama administration was illegal. The major questions doctrine essentially says that for really big...
July 1, 2022 | In the News
It’s an exhausting experience that often makes people question whether to wear their hair naturally. Statistics show Black women are 80% more likely than white women to feel the need to change their hair to fit in at the office, according to 2019 research by JOY...
June 30, 2022 | In the News
Linda Stamato and Sanford M. Jaffe discuss the Russia-Ukraine war in a letter to the editor New York Times, June 30, 2022
June 24, 2022 | In the News
Wineries are being hit hard by the high cost of supplies, and they are also facing supply shortages. While there isn’t a wine shortage, the cost to package and ship bottles of wine has gone up, according to some employees at wineries in New Jersey. *********** A...
June 24, 2022 | In the News
Two outside experts and the former Board of Education president are taking issue with Mayor Steven Fulop’s recent attacks on the BOE and school officials following their adoption of a record $955 million budget and a tax levy that would cost the average homeowner an...
June 22, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Ports are economic gems in a globalizing, multipolar economic world. Even though activity slowed with the pandemic, most have navigated through the crisis and have strongly rebounded. They are also challenging for planners and managers, as they often lead to health...
June 22, 2022 | In the News
Gov. Phil Murphy promised to create a state public bank. In November 2019, he did just that, traveling to Newark to announce its creation in Executive Order 91. Surrounded by community and financial justice advocates, the governor pledged to leverage...
June 20, 2022 | In the News
Long COVID is a bummer. Even mild infections of the coronavirus are leading to weeks and months of lingering symptoms such as loss of smell, confusion due to mental brain fog, and fatigue. But severe outcomes, such as heart disorders and kidney disease, are appearing,...
June 20, 2022 | In the News
Engineers and the general public often hold attitudes on transportation topics that directly contradict core tenets of the transportation planning profession, and those differences are especially stark when it comes to reducing the use of automobiles, a new study...
June 20, 2022 | In the News
The municipal bonds that helped finance the nation’s second largest mall are showing signs of wobbling. The American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, was delayed for years, then opened shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 3, the trustee for...
