January 18, 2018 | In the News
Where workers choose to live is important, because it will probably determine where many of them will be taxed. “You pay taxes where you live. If New Jersey doesn’t get the residents, they won’t get the tax benefits,” said Rutgers economist James Hughes, the...
January 17, 2018 | In the News
But six months later, squeezed between his ambition to run for president and re-election in a majority blue state, he bucked his own party and took the money. There are now more than half a million poor people who gained access to healthcare in New Jersey. “It was a...
January 13, 2018 | In the News
The Trump administration has prohibited the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using the phrases, “science-based” and “evidence-based,” from its lexicon, a decision that can hardly help the agency carry out its mission...
January 12, 2018 | In the News
The latest New Jersey Health and Well-Being Poll, in which the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy takes the pulse of residents on various issues, looked at how often people get opioid prescriptions and what they do with the medicines. “The percentage reporting...
January 11, 2018 | In the News
New Jersey’s economy looks far different than it did when the Great Recession struck a decade ago, but its long-standing problems are firmly in place, academic and business leaders said Wednesday. It prompted them to urge incoming Gov. Phil Murphy to break...
January 5, 2018 | In the News
But one expert in government ethics said the city school board ought to hold “due diligence” meetings with other companies, similar to the session with Maureen Davis, if it plans to move ahead and take bids on the textbooks financing plan. Holding meetings with other...
December 22, 2017 | In the News
Nearly one-in-three Garden State families have a member who was prescribed opioids in the past year, and many plan to keep unused portions Tackling the epidemic of opioid abuse and deaths has been a signature issue of Gov. Chris Christie, but with his departure from...
December 22, 2017 | In the News
Trade, transportation and utilities, a sector that includes retailers, lost 1,400 jobs last month. Rutgers University economist James W. Hughes said it could be a sign retailers in the digital age are hiring fewer workers for their bricks-and-mortar stores. Still, New...
December 22, 2017 | In the News
That said, Trump has made progress in halting or slowing some major Obama-era initiatives. And some regulatory experts believe that the message the president is sending on deregulation is just as important as any specific policy changes he is enacting. “This is...
December 16, 2017 | Alumni Spotlight, Career, News
Five years ago in late October, the Northeast was rocked by Superstorm Sandy. On Thursday, November 16th, the Bloustein School Alumni Association hosted a PoP Topics panel to reflect on lessons learned in light of the unfolding disaster recovery efforts in Texas,...
December 12, 2017 | In the News
“Overstated, absolutely,” Stuart Shapiro, a Rutgers University professor who served as a White House regulatory analyst under Republican and Democrat administrations, said of the Trump administration claims. Trump’s attempts to completely derail rules often have been...
