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 | News
By Will Irving READ REPORT R/ECON’s economic forecast for New Jersey as of June 2024 continues to show a slowing trajectory, though the decline in annual GDP growth is not as pronounced as in the prior forecast. The anticipated slowdown has also been deferred from...
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...
July 1, 2024 | In the News
Housing was barely mentioned in last week’s presidential debate and addressed only by President Joe Biden, not Donald Trump. Biden pushed recent housing actions as proof that his administration is tackling the affordability crisis, an issue that strikes home for...
June 27, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Poverty Governance in the Delegated Welfare State: Privatization, Commodification, and the U.S. Health Care Safety Net Abstract Due to forces of retrenchment and fiscal austerity in the contemporary U.S. welfare state, the federal government has increasingly delegated...
June 26, 2024 | In the News
By Linda Stamato When disease prevention is done right, we don’t notice. When it isn’t, disease spreads, people get sick, and they die. Then, we pay close attention. After the threat passes, stock is taken, and, oddly enough, investment in public health declines....
June 25, 2024 | News
Muazzam Toshmatova, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Her paper, co-authored with Marina Lovchikova, titled “Immigration Enforcement and Health Insurance Choices: Evidence from Secure Communities,” won the...
June 24, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey’s unemployment rate has been nearly the same for almost a year — the sixth highest in the nation according to recent numbers — as nationwide the labor market shows signs of slowing down. New Jersey’s latest unemployment rate is still a far cry from...
June 24, 2024 | In the News
By Julia Sass Rubin, Opinion Contributor New Jersey has been hit by a series of political earthquakes. The Garden State, which has a reputation for government corruption, is also America’s last bastion of political machines. No one embodies that machine control more...
June 24, 2024 | News
By Slawa Rokicki, Mitu Patel, Patricia Suplee, and Robyn D’Oria Perinatal mental health, which includes depression or anxiety that occurs during pregnancy or in the postpartum period, is a significant public health problem that disproportionately affects racial and...
June 23, 2024 | In the News
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — New Jersey residents now have a one-stop source for information on different aspects of the state’s food system, thanks to a new tool designed to build capacity in community non-profits, municipal departments and grassroots organizations to...
June 23, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey politics have a reputation for being wild. But this? This is something else. Even by our standards, what’s going on in the Garden State these days is head-spinning. Earth-shattering, in fact. A sitting U.S. senator, Robert Menendez, is on trial for alleged...
June 20, 2024 | News
Original article published in TAPintoPrinceton, June 15, 2024 By Pam Hersh Princeton, NJ – Tuesday, June 4, Primary Election Day in New Jersey, was a big expletive-deleted deal for Princeton resident Julia Sass Rubin, whose name appeared nowhere on any ballot. Rubin,...
June 19, 2024 | In the News
James Hughes, a Rutgers University expert on U.S. housing trends, doesn’t know this accountant, but he endorses her dream of finding a move-in-ready property that offers a low cost of living — especially because energy and insurance costs are rising...
June 18, 2024 | In the News
NEWARK — Schools Superintendent Roger León on Monday said no alcohol was served at a “Superintendent’s Staff Fun Day” – an event for the district’s top administrators and their staff – held June 1 at an elegant venue in Warren. “Taxpayer funds” did not pay for...
June 17, 2024 | In the News
Lawmakers introduced the “New Jersey Student Support Act” in early April. Their goal was to allow students to attend private schools at public expense. Last week, after what they said was overwhelming opposition from stakeholders, sponsors pulled their bill. It never...
