October 21, 2021 | In the News
More than 2 million women have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic. A major hurdle to their return is the lack of affordable childcare. It’s a nationwide problem but federal assistance funds have been available since March 2021, including $694...
October 21, 2021 | EJB Talks
This week on EJB Talks we get back to telling the story of Bloustein through retired faculty. Stuart Shapiro welcomes his former colleague in the Public Policy Program and beloved Professor Emeritus, Henry Coleman. Professor Coleman gives Stuart his...
October 12, 2021 | In the News
Murphy’s Republican predecessor, Chris Christie, worked with Democrats in the Legislature a decade ago to put a 2% annual cap on property tax increases, with some exceptions. The effects of that cap have been clear with slower growth under Murphy, said Marc Pfeiffer,...
October 12, 2021 | In the News
When the U.S. Supreme Court, on Aug. 26, ruled against President Biden’s extension of the moratorium on evictions, it sacrificed the safety and quite possibly the lives of hundreds of Americans to a legal ideology known as legal positivism or the...
October 11, 2021 | In the News
The borough of Pine Valley in Camden County has already voted to consolidate into Pine Hill. The disappearing town has 21 residents – barely one for each hole on the main course at Pine Valley Golf Club, one of the top golf courses in the world and the borough’s...
October 8, 2021 | Alumni Spotlight, News
by Madison Welch The Scarlet Knights football program had a profound effect on Bloustein School alum Shawn Tucker RC ’07, MCRP ’12 during his time at Rutgers, and later his career. Shawn Tucker RC ’07, MCRP ’12 is the Associate Vice President and...
October 7, 2021 | In the News
But some say money can’t define bike-share programs’ success. Reminder, said Robert Noland, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University: All transportation costs governments money. “So it’s fairly cheap for a city or the state to subsidize...
October 7, 2021 | EJB Talks
It’s homecoming at Rutgers this week! To celebrate, Stuart Shapiro welcomes Bloustein School policy alumnus and former Rutgers football player Chris Gough MPP ’18 to EJB Talks. Chris, who works for the International Trade Administration (ITA) at the...
October 6, 2021 | In the News
T. Patrick Hill, Ph.D., an associate professor at The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, vocalized support for the changes suggested by Solomon. “Corruption in government, at any level, breeds a corrosive, self-defeating...
October 6, 2021 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Are current incomes and other indicators of economic well-being linked to the previous generation’s wealth? This is a question that Bloustein School assistant professor Jermaine Toney, Ph.D. and Cassandra L. Robertson (New America Foundation) examined in their paper...
October 4, 2021 | In the News
Transportation has long been viewed as one of the more reliable areas of agreement in Congress but has now become another front in the partisan wars. Look no further for evidence than the current Senate infrastructure bill, which seems to please few beside those who...
September 30, 2021 | EJB Talks
On this episode of EJBTalks Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Patrick Hill, who teaches ethics classes across Bloustein’s programs. Patrick has an in-depth discussion with Stuart about ethics and its application in informing planning, policy, and public health. ...
September 25, 2021 | In the News
A new study from Rutgers economists shows the Philadelphia sweetened beverage tax created at least as many jobs as it cost in the four-and-a-half years since it passed. The study confirms two prior studies that found the tax had no net effect on overall...
