August 23, 2017 | In the News
Bloustein young alums Connor Montferatt MPP-MCRP ’17, a Councilman in the Borough of Hightstown and Jonathan Castaneda, MCRP ’16, chief of staff to the mayor of West New York were recently named to InsiderNJ’s “50 under 30: The Millennial Up...
August 23, 2017 | Alumni Spotlight
Allison P. Harris MPP ’06 was awarded the 2017 Edward S. Corwin prize for the best dissertation in the field of public law. The Corwin award is for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year or the previous year in the field of public...
August 16, 2017 | In the News
As clinicians strive to deliver—and continually improve—high quality, cost-effective care, they need a much deeper financial understanding. This should include not only the imperatives their organizations face, but also the implications of their own decisions. It is...
August 11, 2017 | In the News
“As a society we are failing a lot of these folks by letting them fend for themselves,” said Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Van Horn was among the experts speaking Tuesday in New Brunswick...
August 11, 2017 | Alumni Spotlight
Dakota Cintron, Project L/EARN cohort of 2011 and a 2014 graduate from the Bloustein School with a BS in public health and economics, was selected to the second cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars. He is one of three...
August 10, 2017 | In the News
A new study suggests that New Jersey could expand its economy by $150 billion and create a quarter-million new jobs over the next decade by making a number of policy changes regarding business operations in the state. The report by consulting firm McKinsey says that...
August 10, 2017 | In the News
The debate over affirmative action in college admissions has taken a new twist: The Justice Department is seeking lawyers for investigations and possible lawsuits against universities to prohibit what they deem is “intentional race-based discrimination.” Last year,...
August 1, 2017 | In the News
President Donald Trump has brought many crusades to Washington. One that has received less attention than his pledges to “drain the swamp” and his jeremiads against illegal immigration, is his administration’s systematic attempts to discredit objective analysis of...
July 30, 2017 | In the News
Millennials are attracted to the live-work-play environment, explains James Hughes, Rutgers University professor and an expert in New Jersey economics and demographics. Some towns may never be able to provide the lifestyle this cohort needs, but others have unique...
July 28, 2017 | In the News
Here in New Jersey, it’s time to anticipate new social and development patterns, reimagine our suburbs, and prepare for a new generation of prosperity. Start by considering some history, courtesy of the superb new book New Jersey’s Postsuburban Economy by...
July 28, 2017 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, said the state should receive plenty of credit for getting Atlantic City’s finances under control. In February, state overseers reached a $72 million tax...
July 28, 2017 | In the News
The declining school populations in part reflect a wider trend of depopulation of the outer-ring suburbs that is playing out across New Jersey and the Northeastern United States, according to Professor James Hughes, a senior faculty fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein...
July 18, 2017 | In the News
Rutgers economist James Hughes said many of the office buildings in Central Jersey were constructed 30 to 35 years ago, “however a number of properties have been repositioned, they have been upgraded, their information technology systems are state of the art.”...
July 16, 2017 | In the News
About 32.8 percent of residents in the southeastern part of the state said their neighborhoods were in fair or poor condition, twice the percentage of respondents who felt the same way about neighborhoods in other parts of the state. The study was funded by the Robert...
July 14, 2017 | In the News
Presidents from both parties routinely pause their predecessors’ rules, but Trump’s delays are lasting longer and reaching further — with targets including protections for student borrowers, standards for e-cigarettes, and an expansion of requirements that airlines...
July 13, 2017 | In the News
According to a release from Williams researchers at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy estimate “the design and construction of the Northeast Supply Enhancement project will generate approximately $327 million in additional economic...
July 13, 2017 | In the News
Robert Noland, professor of transportation planning and policy at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: “Hyperloops are being designed with the hope of shooting people and cargo in pods through vacuum tubes at high speed. “This concept was originally...
