April 13, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Transportation agencies and planners should rely on communication and partnerships as they respond to immediate needs and assess long-term effects associated with the coronavirus. That was the assessment by Anne Strauss-Wieder, director of freight planning for the...
April 13, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The coronavirus pandemic has wrecked state finances – ballooning its spending, decimating its tax collections, requiring a federal rescue to keep it afloat. Similar stresses, though not as severe, are faced by local governments. “What they have in common primarily is...
April 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Graduate Health Administration Student Spotlights
What Yasir says: My essential job function as a Fraud Investigator II on Anthem’s Program Integrity Special Investigations Unit is to stop fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) that may be committed by providers in Anthem’s network. One of my tasks is to...
April 10, 2020 | News
by Cecille de Laurentis MPP/MCRP ’20 Author’s Note: This event held was just prior to the full scope of the pandemic hitting the United States, but its timeliness was uncanny. Incarcerated populations are at particular risk during the global pandemic. Health...
April 9, 2020 | News
Charles T. Brown, MPA, CPD, LCI, senior researcher and adjunct professor at the Bloustein School’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, has been selected as one of 20 inaugural fellows of the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis, a partnership of...
April 8, 2020 | News
Bloustein School MCRP candidates Chase Palmer and Rebecca Weiss have been selected for the Port Authority Leadership Fellow Program. Over 250 graduate students applied to the program; Chase and Rebecca were two of the five finalists that were selected for the...
April 8, 2020 | News
On Monday, April 6 the Bloustein School co-sponsored the Rutgers School of Public Health 25th Annual Public Health Symposium Webinar, “Climate Change: Science, Advocacy & Action” on Monday, April 6. The webinar highlighted the significant impacts...
April 8, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The widespread shutdown of non-essential businesses has hurt black and Hispanic workers at a higher rate. William Rodgers, chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, estimated that the true rate of unemployment is likely...
April 7, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Any assignment of responsibility must recognize that doing so is complicated. A disaster of the magnitude of the spread of the COVID-19 virus has no single origin. But at the same time, this complexity should not deter us from trying to understand what happened. While...
April 6, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
In a crisis, consistent, responsible, and factual information needs to be disseminated by all sources regardless of political affiliation. The deep divide between conservatives and liberals has sadly manifested in creating a divided American society. This divide is...
April 6, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The halls of K-12 schools across the country are eerily quiet, as teachers and students stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Yet cafeteria workers are reporting to work, figuring out innovative ways to serve children free, nutritious school meals in...
April 5, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The pandemic has so far resulted in 701,000 lost jobs according to the March jobs report. And that doesn’t even include the nearly 10 million people who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. While the unemployment rate increased to 4.4% from 3.5% in...
April 3, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
William Rodgers, professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, said he expected the unemployment rate to soon surpass the Great Recession high of 10%. “What is so chilling is that that took...
April 3, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The US now faces the sharpest rise in unemployment in its history, a surge that is already highlighting income inequality across the nation and comes as the global economy goes into a nosedive that is likely to exacerbate the situation in the months ahead....
April 2, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
New Jersey on Wednesday became the first U.S. state to extend its fiscal year as it deals with the health and economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus, pushing back the original end date by three months. Democratic Governor Phil Murphy and legislative leaders...
April 2, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development has extensive experience from our work during and after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Great Recession, and Superstorm Sandy. We have a deep understanding of the programs and strategies that can help people,...
April 2, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Rutgers economist William Rodgers III (a former chief economist at the Department of Labor) and the Century Foundation’s Andrew Stettner built a model using these kinds of unemployment claims numbers to predict the unemployment rate. Plugging in the most recent claims...
April 1, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
It isn’t clear how long it will take for unemployed workers to begin to receive financial relief, said Carl Van Horn, founding director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. “These are jobs (available) right...
March 27, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said municipal officials need to update their understanding of computer systems as well as their software. “It’s not...
March 26, 2020 | COVID-19, In the News
New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo MS ’99 (Public Policy) on the new one-stop jobs portal to match job-seekers with immediate openings at businesses serving on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic: “We all have a role to play in making...
