April 30, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Postal workers, like doctors, nurses, fire, police and other essential workers, are getting sick and dying while working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. And yet the critical service they provide all across America is in jeopardy. Revenue to the U.S....
April 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Graduate Health Administration Student Spotlights
What Thomas says: At Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS), I have been fortunate to be entrusted with the responsibility of managing multiple high-level projects, business plans, and contractual negotiations. The projects include medical research, business...
April 29, 2020 | EJB Talks
There has been both in- and out-migration from cities now for years depending upon economic conditions, but the pandemic has hit our cities and high-density areas the hardest. After years of re-urbanization, are we going to see a new wave of urban flight? Has the...
April 28, 2020 | COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the public workforce system to shutter in-person operations and pivot to operating and providing services virtually. This drastic shift has presented challenges and opportunities for workforce professionals, who have been forced to...
April 28, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Gov. Phil Murphy announced the members of his Restart and Recovery Commission, which will help guide him in the process of reopening the state. Murphy said the group is unrivaled in terms of its diversity of experiences, perspectives and expertise. “It is composed of...
April 27, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
During the 2020 pandemic-driven economic disaster, the next rounds of stimulus spending from Washington should fund one million community service jobs. Direct job creation programs must be added to the already authorized — and essential — business assistance and...
April 27, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Sadly, my patient and millions like her in America are fighting not only the coronavirus but another, older epidemic that’s only been exacerbated by the new crisis: food insecurity. The COVID-19 outbreak is further disrupting the healthy eating habits...
April 25, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 shutdowns and subsequent blow to the American economy in March 2020, the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University wanted to understand how the public workforce development system was...
April 24, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
New Jersey property tax payments are made four times a year on the first day of February, May, August, and November. The May 1 payment is due in less than 10 days. With many homeowners out of work and small businesses closed due to the pandemic, many payments...
April 24, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
New Jersey Policy Perspective released a report showing cuts in New Jersey spending since the recession of 2009 to three key departments: Health, Labor and Community Affairs, which coordinates the state’s social safety net — the programs most needed to...
April 23, 2020 | In the News
The Facts and Findings report, “Housing Instability and Health-Related Housing Quality in New Jersey,” details the results of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy’s latest New Jersey Health and Well-Being Poll, conducted in 2019....
April 23, 2020 | EJB Talks
Returning to the healthcare field amidst the COVID-19 crisis, host Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Soumitra Bhuyan, who teaches in the Bloustein School’s health administration program and Dr. Sabiha Hussain from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Their...
April 22, 2020 | News
This new initiative seeks to address specific, unexpected, and extraordinary problems that are in accord with the school’s mission.
April 21, 2020 | News
Two Bloustein School graduate students – Emily Maciejak MCRP ‘20 and Mathilde Roux EJB ’19, MPP ’20 – were named Presidential Management Fellows finalists by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management earlier this year. The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program...
April 21, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Professor Carl Van Horn discussed the havoc the coronavirus shut down has wreaked on the U.S. economy, causing unemployment numbers to soar to 18%. With so many people out of work, what will this eventually mean to the workforce locally and nationally? WHYY, April 20,...
April 20, 2020 | News
The Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) is an organization of university-based educational programs, faculty, practitioners, and health care provider organizations working to improve the delivery of health services through the education...
April 20, 2020 | EJB Talks
The unemployment numbers in this first month of the COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering. What can we do to help those who are finding themselves newly unemployed, desperately waiting for their benefits to start and not sure where to turn? In this episode of EJB...
April 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Undergraduate Public Health Student Spotlights
Hometown: Palisades Park, NJ What Mariana says: I am grateful I have been given the opportunity to work with a great team that is doing a tremendous job in caring for their patients and providing the best care possible in these hard times. I have come across cancer...
April 17, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The COVID-19 global pandemic has left a record-number 22 million people – including over 700,000 within New Jersey – without jobs, wondering what the new normal will be when it comes to the economy and job-seeking in the future. Carl Van Horn, Distinguished Professor...
April 15, 2020 | News
Ph.D. candidate Franklin Halprin took second place at the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT), it was announced on April 10. Franklin’s presentation was “The Bear Truths: Power, History, and Conflict in New Jersey Black...
