March 30, 2018 | Alumni Spotlight, In the News
Highland Park’s OQ Coffee Co., owned by Jessica Schellack MCRP ’11 and her husband Ben, was recently named Best Coffee in New Jersey by Food and Wine. Food and Wine story, March 23, 2018 NJ.com story, March 30, 2018
March 28, 2018 | Event Recap
3/27 2018 Place, Race, and Power: Advancing Health Equity in New Jersey and Nationally click to play 2018 Robert A. Catlin Memorial Lecture Residential segregation is a powerful root cause of racial and ethnic health inequities because it concentrates health risks in...
March 28, 2018 | In the News
A decade ago, less than 10 percent of students in Newark schools attended charters. Today, about 33 percent do. In five years, that number could reach 44 percent. Chalkbeat talks with professor Julia Sass Rubin to find out how this may–or may not–happen....
March 23, 2018 | In the News
The time for communities, decision makers, and practitioners to evaluate the potential health effects of a plan, policy, or project is before it is adopted, implemented, or built. One way that New Jersey can more systematically integrate the consideration of health...
March 14, 2018 | In the News
The departments may be small, but plenty of them are pricey. In more than half of the state’s 20 smallest towns with their own forces, the towns spent at least $1 million to maintain a police department. Some towns have tried to merge their departments to reduce...
March 7, 2018 | In the News
Food, fitness and fun. Those are key elements that the millennial generation, which is redefining corporate geography, is seeking in its live, work and play environment, according to James Hughes, professor and former dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning...
March 6, 2018 | In the News
It’s all part of a trend that began in the mid-20th Century, said James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. “In 1960, about half of all households were married families with children, the...
March 5, 2018 | In the News
Jim Hughes, the dean at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and co-author Joseph Seneca put it most succinctly in their recent work on New Jersey’s postsuburban economy: “New Jersey’s core advantage in...
February 27, 2018 | In the News
However, employing right-to-work laws could have a costly impact on women and people of color. A new working paper by Rutgers University professor William Rodgers III found that right-to-work laws hit the earnings of black and Latino workers the hardest because they...
February 26, 2018 | In the News
Michael Lahr, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service at the Bloustein School; Raphael Caprio, director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center; Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center; Richard Keevey,...
