Residents shouldn’t overpay to make NJ clean energy leader

The worthwhile transition to clean energy “will be expensive and regressive,” said Frank A. Felder, the director of the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy at Rutgers University. His op-ed for NJ Spotlight said residents will pay more directly and...

Bloustein PhDs publish article in Journal of Education Policy

Ryan M. Good, PhD ’06, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Co-Director of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center at Eastern Mennonite University in Washington, DC and Katharine Nelson, PhD candidate at the Bloustein School, recently co-authored an...

NJ Clean Energy Plan Proposes Bold Actions

“For a start, the state should conduct a complete, and the word complete cannot be emphasized enough, energy rate impact of its Energy Master Plan (EMP) that includes all of the additional costs (e.g., transmission, tax incentives, state expenditures, etc.) that the...

Midwest Is Most Robot-Dense Region

A recent report sponsored by the Century Foundation claims that industrial robots have not yet brought the dire nationwide effects that some people have warned about. “How Robots Are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages” shows that the impact of automation...

New Jersey Marks a “Novel” First in Fighting Climate Change

“It would certainly seem that New Jersey would really be taking a big leap here,” said Jeanne Herb, director of the environmental analysis group Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Other states, like Rhode Island, are moving...

Ex-Inmates Complete Newark Intervention Program

Nancy Wolff, Rutgers University distinguished professor, discussed three factors that influence a program’s effectiveness. The type of treatment is less important than how a facilitator delivers the treatment, Wolff says. If a facilitator is consistent, present...

Expert explains biggest economic challenges facing Americans

The issue of national debt is in focus as the Treasury Department reports the federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in 2019. Rutgers University Economist William Rodgers III joins Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman and Sibile Marcellus, along with Retail Expert...

NJ unveils final plan for 100% 'clean' electricity

The release of the energy master plan has also generated skepticism from various corners of the state’s energy sphere. One concern stemmed from the transition’s cost to ratepayers — an analysis that officials in the Murphy administration said would be...

NJ unveils final plan for 100% ‘clean’ electricity

The release of the energy master plan has also generated skepticism from various corners of the state’s energy sphere. One concern stemmed from the transition’s cost to ratepayers — an analysis that officials in the Murphy administration said would be...

Does news coverage of crashes affect perceived blame?

Still another example: “A pedestrian was hit and killed” was changed to “A pedestrian was hit and killed by a car.” Despite an ever-rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on U.S. roads each year, there’s no widespread public...