October 17, 2024 | In the News
The way Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi explains it sounds pretty straightforward. “The whole design of a ballot is not to confuse the voter, that they can easily see the office for which they are voting and to easily see the candidates,” she says. And...
October 17, 2024 | News
Ashley Caldwell, a public policy major at Rutgers, fills an open seat on the New Brunswick Board of Education. Read the Original Article on Rutgers Today Rutgers University-New Brunswick student Ashley Caldwell likes to keep busy. The junior, who attends the Edward J....
October 16, 2024 | News
Mayor Fulop & Jersey City Free Public Library Set New Standards for Public Libraries Across NJ with the Opening of a New Communipaw Library Branch Bridging Technology Gaps and Expanding Educational Opportunities Where Most Needed JERSEY CITY, NJ — Mayor Steven M....
October 15, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Modeling the employment decisions of young men and women in nine European countries: An application of random utility theory and revealed preference by Radha Jagannathan, Michael J Camasso, Jocelyn LaFleur, and Simona Monteleone Abstract In this paper we examine the...
October 14, 2024 | News
This year in recognition of National Disability Awareness Month, we invited members of the Rutgers community to reflect on one thing they want people to know about their experience as a person with a disability, or as a caretaker for someone with a disability, and how...
October 10, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Disentangling policy and structural effects on car-ownership for car-owning and carless US households during and after the COVID-19 pandemic by Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah. Ph.D. Highlights Increase in economic stimulus funding increased the odds of car-ownership....
October 10, 2024 | In the News
LAKEWOOD – Each month, Unex Manufacturing Inc. executives get a phone call or email from an economic development group in another state — Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio — asking if they are ready to move out of New Jersey to a cheaper...
October 9, 2024 | In the News
For the third time in six years, California voters will decide in November whether to grant cities and counties more power to regulate rents. Proposition 33 would repeal a 1995 law that curbs locals’ ability to cap rents, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act....
October 9, 2024 | In the News
How to Work Productively with Town Officials Abstract: Policies and programs out of Washington can have profound effect on businesses large and small. Even so, municipal ordinances very often have a more immediate impact on profits. Business owners need to cultivate...
October 8, 2024 | In the News
While research shows taxes on sweetened beverages like soda generally achieve their goal of reducing people’s consumption of these unhealthy products, experts say cities should consider the sustainability of such levies. Only eight U.S. cities impose a tax on...
October 2, 2024 | News
What Elected Officials and CAOs Need to Know about Technology Fitness (Part 18) In this latest installment of Tech Fitness for Local Elected Officials and Administrators, Marc Pfeiffer explains that there is no one-size-fits-all set of controls for every technology...
October 1, 2024 | In the News
The “classic” — and not so classic — reasons why older people are splitting Older adults leave their marriages for the same reasons younger ones do — with some exceptions. That’s what Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University, found in...
October 1, 2024 | In the News
Prop Fest is a collaboration from Bay Curious and The Bay podcasts, where we break down each of the 10 statewide propositions that will be on your November 2024 ballot. Check out KQED’s Voter Guide for more information on state and local races. Today, reporter Vanessa...
September 30, 2024 | In the News
GAO reported that there were 450,000 single-family rental homes owned by institutional investors as of 2022. However, in a report by the Urban Institute, they estimated that large institutional investors owned 574,000 single-family homes as of June 2022 and their...
September 30, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews Abstract Local review platforms like Yelp and Google Maps use systems combining automated and human judgment to delineate the limits of acceptable speech, allowing some reviews to...
September 26, 2024 | News
National Academies Releases New Report on the Public Health Implications of Changes in Cannabis Policy Over the past several decades, more than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis for adult and/or medical use, but it remains illegal at the federal level....
September 25, 2024 | In the News
Just over half of all demolitions in Wichita and Sedgwick County in the last decade were of single-family homes. Of those, nearly a quarter occurred in ZIP code 67214. The area had the most single-family demolitions of any other ZIP code over the last decade. The...
September 23, 2024 | News
Barkha Patel (MCRP ’15) was interviewed by CBS New York’s Vanessa Murdock about the completion of phase 1 of the historic Jersey City reservoir, which recently reopened to the public. View Photos and Summary Jersey City officially reopened the historic...
September 17, 2024 | News
On Sept. 3, a study was published outlining the potential of federal programs aimed at uplifting immigrant communities, through the lens of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Emily Parker, assistant professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and...
September 13, 2024 | Graduate Public Informatics Student Spotlights
Yousaf Shahid Master of Public Policy/Master of Public Informatics, Class of 2025 With a background in mechanical engineering and five years of experience in Pakistan’s energy sector, Yousaf witnessed the critical challenges of energy security, outdated...
