August 7, 2024 | In the News
Head over to American Dream in East Rutherford on a Saturday and you’ll see a packed mall. Guests on indoor roller coasters or indoor waterslides, or zipping down the indoor ski slope. Or shopping or dining at one of the hundreds of offerings at the venue. Yet...
August 6, 2024 | In the News, News
When summertime rolls around in New York City in the year 2065, the living ain’t gonna be easy. On a perfectly average day in August, the mercury will climb to 91.6 degrees, rather than the historic average of 84.6, according to one future climate scenario calculated...
August 1, 2024 | In the News, News
Patrick Flanary: No one knows when the next major hurricane could hit the Cape, Coast, and Islands. But if and when the big one comes, it will bring days of wind, waves, and worries. And then the skies will clear. The economic impacts, on the other hand, could last...
July 31, 2024 | In the News
When the federal government allotted $190 billion to school districts throughout the nation in an attempt to address learning loss caused by Covid-19, Newark Public Schools was a big beneficiary of what are called ESSER funds, or Elementary and Secondary Schools...
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...
