March 11, 2022 | In the News
In the first budget address of his second term, Gov. Philip Murphy responded to New Jersey voters’ discontent at a time of surging gas costs and high taxes. Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at theEdward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers...
March 9, 2022 | In the News
With inflation continuing to heat up dramatically the Federal Reserve is expected to approve the first of many interest rate increases next week. Rutgers University economist James Hughes said no one is sure whether we’ll see an increase of a quarter percent, a half...
March 9, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Whether a student feels inspired in a class depends largely on whether they feel inspired by their teacher. In a new article for Harvard Business Publishing Education, “Is Your Teaching Style Working?” associate teaching professor Patti...
March 8, 2022 | In the News
Last week Gov. Murphy announced a property-tax relief program that could benefit renters. Senior policy fellow Marc Pfeiffer explains that the funding is coming from income tax and directly benefits people paying those taxes (segment starts at 6:40) NJ Spotlight News,...
March 8, 2022 | In the News
Since the 1990s, Richmond’s story largely has been one of success. Spurred and supported by the expansion of the Mid-Atlantic Interstate 95 corridor, the city saw employment increase, population loss reverse and median incomes increase from $24,000 in 1990 to $54,000...
March 7, 2022 | In the News
“The pandemic has really transformed work. It’s transformed lifestyles. It’s transformed how we basically live,” says Rutgers University Professor James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. COVID-19 sparked the Great...
March 3, 2022 | In the News
The value of books has been recorded thousands upon thousands of times. Books have espoused freedom and widened horizons, prompted dreams and helped imagine futures. They have mitigated despair and offered hope, relayed history, answered questions and raised more. And...
March 2, 2022 | EJB Talks
SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE 2: The world continues to watch as the Russian invasion of Ukraine disturbingly continues. In this timely, special edition of EJBTalks, Stuart Shapiro talks with Bloustein doctoral candidate Sergei Kostiaev. A native of Russia, Sergei discusses...
March 2, 2022 | EJB Talks
Professor Andrea Hetling Solomiya Mykolyk SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE 1: The war in Ukraine has stunned western observers. In this timely, special edition of EJB Talks, Stuart Shapiro speaks with two members of the Bloustein community who are personally touched by the...
February 25, 2022 | Research, Publications, and Reports
Research on residential displacement typically takes up the topic when it is an expected or possible outcome of gentrification. A new paper by Bloustein School assistant professor Eric Seymour and Joshua Akers, Department of Geography and Urban and Regional Studies,...
February 25, 2022 | In the News
Although New Jersey is typically a reliably blue state politically, legislature leaders have been cautiously moderate on many progressive issues, said Associate Rutgers University Professor Julia Sass Rubin, director of the Policy Program at the Edward J Bloustein...
February 24, 2022 | Event Recap
2/23 Affordable Housing: National, State, and Local Perspectives click to play Eight decades ago, the landmark 1949 Housing Act declared a national goal of a “decent home and suitable living environment” for all Americans. Half a century ago, the landmark New Jersey...
February 24, 2022 | In the News
The pandemic has altered the workplace dynamic, and experts say the North Jersey landscape built on officeparks is about to change forever. “In the Northeast, the five-day-a-week in-office is history,” said Jim Hughes, a Rutgers professor...
February 24, 2022 | EJB Talks
This week on EJB Talks Jeanne Herb, Director of the Bloustein School’s Environmental Analysis and Communications Group (EAC), returns to talk to Stuart Shapiro. Jeanne gives the history of EAC and an overview of its vision of community-based environmental...
