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...
August 12, 2020 | In the News
Like many who had COVID-19, the experience is not one David Brook would like to repeat. But, the 66-year-old knows he is fortunate. With the U.S. mortality toll now past 160,000 and climbing, he considers himself a survivor. To help...
August 11, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The Bergen Record reports on the impact on New Jersey with a second wave of unemployment quoting James W. Hughes. (subscriber access required) Bergen Record, August 11, 2020
August 11, 2020 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Eric Seymour is co-author of an article examining the relationship between investor ownership in foreclosed homes and the risk of childhood lead exposure in low-income housing markets with Alexa Eisenberg (University of Michigan, School of Public Health), Alex B. Hill...
August 11, 2020 | EJB Talks
COVID-19 has monumentally changed how we have lived for the last five months, with most of the population quarantining at home. In previous episodes, we examined the effect the quarantine has had on some of our most vulnerable populations. This week on EJB Talks, we...
August 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Undergraduate Public Health Student Spotlights
What Kristin says: This past spring I was a Customer Service Representative at Weill Cornell Imaging at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where I was tasked with scheduling COVID-19 patients for their CT’s and X-Rays. In addition to scheduling COVID-19 patients, I also...
August 10, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
In an accompanying commentary, Joel C. Cantor, ScD, and Dawne M. Mouzon, PhD, both of Rutgers University, were skeptical of the results, suggesting that the Stanford group perhaps didn’t dig deep enough. “Prior work has shown that primary care physicians...
August 10, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Professor William M. Rodgers III of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development joined a Yahoo Finance On the Move panel to discuss the unexpected addition of 1.76 million jobs in July. Yahoo Finance “On the Move,” August 7, 2020
