July 16, 2024 | In the News
In a trip to Las Vegas, where rents climbed twice as fast as wages last year, President Biden is pitching a plan for national rent stabilization — sort of. The plan wouldn’t directly cap rents — despite a growing freakout from the lobbying groups that fight tooth and...
July 16, 2024 | In the News
In his search for a job, North Jersey resident and recent college graduate Colin Logsdon sometimes sends out up to 100 applications a week. Logsdon, from Chatham, had done everything right up to this point. He went to Iona College and studied finance. He was a D1...
July 16, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Spillovers in Public Benefit Enrollment: How does Expanding Public Health Insurance for Working-Age Adults affect Future Health Insurance Choices? Abstract Enrollment in one public benefit program often affects enrollment in others. We study life-course spillovers by...
July 12, 2024 | In the News
It’s a Presidential election year, and everyone’s mind is on the November ballot box. What’s going to happen in Washington, and how will that affect the business operating environment? The recent Supreme Court decision overruling Chevron casts a bright light on the...
July 12, 2024 | In the News
When the temperature in New York City hit 95 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this week, it marked the hottest day of the year in the city so far. And that heat had an unexpected side effect: It caused the steel on the Third Avenue Bridge in the Bronx to swell, forcing the...
July 10, 2024 | In the News
There are signs that the labor market has been slowing. Since June 2023, the unemployment rate is up 0.5% to just over 4% — not high by historic standards, but that’s still 800,000 more Americans out of work than last year. And jobless claims are up, indicating...
July 10, 2024 | In the News
A series of political earthquakes has shaken New Jersey’s Democratic machine to its core over the past year as a new generation of leaders looks to bring change to the Garden State. It’s a moment that’s been building for years. Since October, prosecutors have indicted...
July 9, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Using GPS-defined venue-based affiliation networks among Black sexually minoritized men and transgender women to identify locations for HIV prevention interventions Purpose HIV biomedical intervention uptake is suboptimal among Black sexually minoritized men (SMM) and...
July 9, 2024 | In the News
On April 18, the 2024 NJ-GMIS Technology Education Conference (TEC) welcomed 150 Garden State municipal, county and school district IT professionals to the Palace at Somerset Park to learn about how technology could make their jobs easier. The conference was sponsored...
July 8, 2024 | In the News
President Joe Biden shared his road map for upcoming regulations that are under threat by a potential second Trump administration. The White House on Friday released the spring Unified Agenda, showing agencies’ timelines for rules dealing with everything from natural...
July 8, 2024 | In the News
The nation’s transportation system was built to withstand the weather, come rain or shine. However, the heat dome scorching the U.S. has been pushing the nation’s infrastructure to the limits. As millions of Americans face sweltering heat conditions, many...
July 4, 2024 | In the News
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore caused a spike in the number of trucks rolling in and out of New York Harbor’s seaports, according to Port Authority data. Baltimore’s port closed on March 26 after a cargo vessel struck one of the...
July 1, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
With Chevron overturned, Americans’ faith in government will sink even further On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned the 1984 decision Chevron v. NRDC, critical in American regulatory policy. Under Chevron, courts were to defer to federal agency interpretations of...
July 1, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Editorial: Artificial intelligence education & governance -human enhancive, culturally sensitive and personally adaptive HAI Professor Jim Samuel co-authored this editorial for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. A new era of artificial intelligence (AI) has...
