February 21, 2022 | In the News
As a child in Soviet Russia, I distinctly remember my mom voting. Like most Russians, she never missed an election — all adult citizens were expected to vote and failing to do so could have substantial economic and political repercussions. Although rates of voting...
February 15, 2022 | In the News
To be sure, much has happened in New Jersey since the 2% cap was enacted, and it’s hard to fully attribute the slowed growth to just one thing. In addition to enacting the 2% cap on levy increases, and the similar restriction on police officer and firefighter pay...
February 15, 2022 | News, Undergraduate Public Policy Student Spotlights
Matthew C. Mai Public Policy, Class of 2022 Hometown: Hackensack, NJ Minor: Critical Intelligence Studies Personal interests: reading books and magazines, particularly about military history, foreign affairs, and political thought, as well as biographies. Matthew Mai...
February 14, 2022 | In the News
Since January 2020, the NBPD received a total of 205 calls reporting shots fired or shot heard in the area. The number of calls reporting shots fired or shots heard in the area was 61 through mid-November 2020, while there were 122 such incidents during the same time...
February 13, 2022 | In the News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Have you ever wondered how people get training on running a public transit agency? Public transit is a very complex business/service to run, so how does one learn everything they need to know? Earlier this month, Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit...
February 10, 2022 | EJB Talks
Jon Carnegie, Executive Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at the Bloustein School, joins Stuart Shapiro on EJB Talks this week. VTC is a leader in transportation planning and policy research and education at the national, regional, and state...
February 4, 2022 | In the News
Linda Stamato, a senior policy fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, says the current labor shortages may provide some of the necessary leverage to eliminate the pay gap between women and men. Opinion, NJ.com,...
February 3, 2022 | In the News
Charter schools’ failure to keep the public informed about their board proceedings is significant, as more than a third of Newark’s public school students attended charter schools last year and $300 million, or 28% of the district’s budget this school year, will go to...
February 3, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
by Marcia Hannigan Anton Nelessen, professor of urban design, devised a system for communities to engage with the planning process to improve their local environment. In Community Visioning for Place Making: A Guide to Visual Preference Surveys for Successful Urban...
