September 10, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
For more information or to set up an interview with Michael Lahr, please email lahr@rutgers.edu Following the 6-month economic lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey is unlikely to experience a job resurgence anytime soon, according to...
September 9, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
In “Burnout, Depression, Career Satisfaction, and Work-Life Integration by Physician Race/Ethnicity,” JAMA Network Open (August 3, 2020), author Luis C. Garcia, MS concludes that physicians in minority racial/ethnic groups were less likely to report burnout...
September 3, 2020 | News
State freedom of information laws are vital mechanisms for providing public access to government records. These laws support civic engagement through the implementation of public policy transparency at the state level, not unlike their federal counterpart, the...
September 2, 2020 | In the News
An op-ed by William Rodgers discusses a Congressional proposal whereby the Federal Reserve would gain a new task: reducing racial inequality. Dr. Rodgers addresses how the proposal could tackle Black unemployment, provide Blacks with more opportunity for credit, and...
August 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Undergraduate Health Administration Student Spotlights
This past spring Sidrah worked with PWNHealth, a national clinician network that provides safe and easy access to diagnostic testing. PWN partnered with Verily Project Baseline, Quest Diagnostics, and other labs that are testing for COVID-19. What Sidrah says: As part...
August 28, 2020 | In the News
Physicians in underrepresented racial/ethnic groups exhibited lower rates of burnout vs. non-Hispanic white physicians, but more research is needed to confirm these findings, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open. In a related editorial, Joel C....
August 27, 2020 | News
The Bloustein School is pleased to welcome two new faculty members to the teaching ranks in the fall of 2020. Will Payne, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School as an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, where...
August 26, 2020 | In the News
The 300-mile New York to D.C. ride aims to highlight barriers people of color face in biking. washingtonpost.com “Our mobility has been arrested,” said Charles Brown, who is Black and is one of the nation’s top leaders in transportation equity and justice....
August 24, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A community land trust (CLT) is a form of land tenure in which an organization — usually formalized as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation — owns the land in perpetuity, but leases out the improvements on the land (housing, businesses, community...
August 24, 2020 | In the News
Poll watchers sometimes obsess over small differences in topline numbers, even those within a poll’s reported margin of sampling error. But those differences pale in comparison to the size of the differences noted above. For those living in a world which hangs...
August 22, 2020 | In the News
A new Rutgers University report offers some encouraging news on the labor front. In July, job growth in New Jersey was much stronger than employment gains in New York City and the U.S. James Hughes, dean emeritus at Rutgers’ Bloustein School, is optimistic about New...
August 20, 2020 | EJB Talks
The economic casualties of the pandemic are all around us–shops and restaurants shuttered, entertainment venues closed indefinitely, casinos limited to minimal visitors, and much more. As New Jersey begins the slow move towards reopening, the downstream effects...
August 14, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
When Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise ran for a fifth term in 2019, he had every advantage over his sole primary challenger, Patricia Waiters. DeGise, a Democrat, had higher name recognition, tens of thousands more in campaign dollars and endorsements from every...
August 14, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
New Jersey’s dominant primary ballot structure, known as the “county line,” provided a huge advantage to many party-backed candidates in last month’s primary and in some cases resulted in voter confusion and tossed-out votes, according to an analysis by a Rutgers...
August 14, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Insider candidates and the politically connected benefited from the layout of New Jersey’s primary ballot in July, according to a new study released Thursday. New Jersey is the only state in the country that allows each county to design its ballot to give...
August 14, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Since the beginning of the pandemic, hospitals, and public health organizations across the United States have struggled to keep up with systemic disruptions related to COVID-19. Governmental regulations related to the pandemic have been changing as quickly as our...
August 14, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Prior to the pandemic in mid-March, NAIOP NJ had planned to convene several experts to examine New Jersey’s fiscal challenges, controlling costs at the local level and pension and benefits reform. In the subsequent four months, our national GDP has plunged 33 percent...
August 13, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
“The county line also increases voter confusion, contributing to overvotes and undervotes. The impact of the county line appeared to be greatest in races that did not involve an incumbent,” said Julia Sass Rubin, an associate professor at the Edward J. Bloustein...
August 13, 2020 | News
As the public workforce system continues to redefine and refine remote service delivery, many local workforce areas are converting their traditional in-person workshop content on job search skills into recorded PowerPoints they post to the Internet. For many...
August 12, 2020 | News
Dean Vonu Thakuriah has announced that professor Dona Schneider will be stepping down from the position of Associate Dean of Academic Programs of the Bloustein School on August 31, 2020. Having served in the role for 12 years, she will return to a faculty role and...
