October 16, 2017 | In the News
In a state that has nearly 9 million people, about 300,000 residents don’t have access to broadband service. “The solution is building up the infrastructure in the rural communities so everyone can have basic access. In the lower income areas, it’s finding the...
October 12, 2017 | In the News
Academics need to reach across political and ideological divides to bring their research expertise to bear on the policy issues of the day, writes Linda Stamato. Inside Higher Ed, October 12, 2017
October 11, 2017 | News
October 2, 2017 | Alumni Spotlight, News
by Zoë Linder-Baptie, Candidate, MPP-MCRP ’18 A civilian analyst for the New Jersey State Police, Raymond Bisogno BS ’06 (Public Health) recently completed a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval...
October 2, 2017 | In the News
For most public employees, New Jersey’s State Health Benefits Plan is some of the best health coverage in the country. But for those looking to commit insurance fraud in the program, which costs taxpayers more than $2.5 billion annually, it is something else. It’s an...
October 1, 2017 | In the News
New Jersey has been eagerly pursuing a strategy, since 1996, that uses tax credits and other incentives to prevent companies from leaving the state, to encourage them to expand here, and to attract others. It hasn’t worked. State investment has increased...
September 29, 2017 | In the News
Holly Low, Master of Public Policy Candidate, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy & New Jersey Policy Perspective 2017 Kathleen Crotty Fellow recently participated in a Women in the Workforce Summit organized by Congressman Donald Norcross...
September 28, 2017 | Graduate Public Policy Student Spotlights, News, Student Spotlight
Roshard Williams, a second year MPP student at the Bloustein School, has been selected as a 2017 APPAM Equity & Inclusion Student Fellowship Recipient. Roshard is an alumnus of the University of South Florida, where he graduated magna cum laude with a...
September 28, 2017 | In the News
A new video produced by the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance describes how climate change is currently and will continue to affect public health in New Jersey.
September 27, 2017 | In the News
Carl Van Horn, a public policy professor and director of Rutgers University’s Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, cautioned that one piece of research doesn’t define a trend, but noted that shifts in labor market conditions were making short-term,...
September 26, 2017 | News
Jennifer Senick, executive director of the Bloustein School’s Rutgers Center for Green Building, participated on a panel to talk about public policy implications of STEM at the opening conference for the Class of 2018 Governor’s STEM Scholars on Saturday,...
September 25, 2017 | In the News
One in five U.S. workers, nearly 30 million people, say they were laid off from their jobs in the last five years, according to a new survey that highlights lasting scars from the spike in U.S. long-term unemployment following the last recession. While the extent of...
September 25, 2017 | In the News
One in five U.S. workers was laid off in the past five years and about 22% of those who lost their jobs still haven’t found another one, according to a new survey that showed the extent Americans have struggled in the sluggish labor market since the Great...
September 24, 2017 | In the News
A new Rutgers University economics study paints a bleak picture of the economic recovery, finding that 20 percent of workers lost their job in the last five years. One in five, or 30 million people, have been laid off from a job since June 2009, according to...
September 24, 2017 | In the News
We have seen the generosity of Mercer County residents time and again over the years. When disaster strikes, when times are lean, when food pantries run low, the people in this region respond with open hands and open hearts. A recent study by the Edward J. Bloustein...
September 23, 2017 | In the News
However, Martin Robins, director emeritus of Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Policy Center, argues that gasoline taxes levied on a per-gallon basis will begin to go down when auto makers begin complying with federal requirements for higher...
September 23, 2017 | In the News
Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs famously told President Obama that Apple would have located 200,000 iPhone manufacturing jobs in the United States, rather than China, if he could have found 8,700 qualified industrial engineers in the U.S. This exchange and...
September 23, 2017 | In the News
But it stops short of making specific recommendations while examining a range of policies that other states are trying in an effort to reduce their carbon footprints, as well as many strategies frequently debated among New Jersey policymakers. “The good news in New...
September 22, 2017 | News
New Jersey has met its near-term requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, but reaching its 2050 goal will require much deeper reductions to meet this goal, according to a report released today by researchers at the Rutgers Climate...
September 21, 2017 | In the News
Paul Larrousse, director of the National Transit Institute, recently blogged a piece for Metro Magazine on the workforce issues transit agencies are facing. Metro Magazine, September 20, 2017
