June 16, 2022 | In the News
The COVID-19 pandemic heavily influenced New Jersey residents’ housing choices between 2020 and 2021, said James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Fears of catching the virus in crowded...
June 15, 2022 | In the News
As the New Jersey labor shortage continues, companies large and small are facing a growing problem: job applicants who are hired and accept a position with a start date, but then never show up at work and don’t even bother to communicate they have changed their mind...
June 15, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Transportation reform is often achingly slow, fraught with political tension and disagreement. At times, planners seem to square off against engineers about the purpose of transportation and the appropriate response to pressing issues like congestion and safety. At...
June 13, 2022 | In the News
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy launched the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project this week to address some of the state’s most pressing health care issues including the opioid epidemic, maternal and infant health and New Jersey’s...
June 8, 2022 | In the News
There is a federal lawsuit filed by Pugach and a group of former candidates and advocacy groups that challenge the primary ballot system as unconstitutional, which received a de-facto vote of confidence from a federal judge on May 31, when the court ruled a motion to...
June 3, 2022 | In the News
In primary elections, some candidates are grouped in a horizontal or vertical line by their county party, such as the Camden County Democrat Committee or Democrats for Change. This is called a “county line” or “party line.” Nineteen out of the state’s 21 counties use...
June 2, 2022 | In the News
“Abolishing the county line would be an earthquake for New Jersey politics,” said Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy who has been counseling local municipal parties about reform efforts. ...
June 2, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Sean Meehan, Senior Research Specialist at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University recently joined the Keep Middlesex Moving podcast to discuss the Safe Routes to School New Jersey Resource Center program and its impact on our region. Listen...
June 1, 2022 | In the News
As we head into the second half of 2022, what is the economic outlook for New Jersey? The state’s top economist said a number of variables are pulling us in many directions. Rutgers University economist James Hughes said inflation is embedded for the time being, with...
June 1, 2022 | EJB Talks, News
As we wrap up the sixth season of EJBTalks, the midterm primaries are underway and Amy Cobb is back to talk with Stuart Shaprio about the hot topics in national politics. She asks for his take on inflation and the economy, who’s to blame (if anyone), and what we...
June 1, 2022 | In the News
Republicans also rallied around Bob Hugin, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive who had never held elective office but still seized the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2016. He lost to Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez in 2018, but is now the state...
May 30, 2022 | In the News
Vehicles killed 7,342 pedestrians, the equivalent of 40 passenger jets falling from the sky and an increase from 4,092 a year earlier, but the jump in deaths isn’t a one-year aberration. Kelcie Ralph, an associate professor at Rutgers University who studies...
May 30, 2022 | In the News
Why do some neighborhoods have underground utilities? How does that come about? What are the pros/cons of having the utility poles underground vs. above-ground? Wildfire season will soon descend upon California, which emerged last year from one of the deadliest, and...
May 20, 2022 | In the News
As popular outrage at pedestrian deaths faded, the media’s attention waned, too. The national auto safety debate prompted by the 1965 publication of Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed focused, like the book itself, primarily on hazards to car occupants, not...
May 20, 2022 | In the News
The monthly jobs report, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is made up of a survey of employers to measure the number of jobs and a survey of households to measure the unemployment rate. April’s report showed the state’s job market continues...
