January 16, 2025 | In the News
New Jersey is weighing a proposal that could potentially save homeowners tens of thousands of dollars on their mortgages. Legislation moving through the pipeline in Trenton would require all financial institutions in the Garden State to allow homeowners to make...
January 15, 2025 | News
The Bloustein School’s Nashia Basit (MPP/MCRP ’24) was one of 22 applicants selected as a 2025 New Leaders Council New Jersey (NLC-NJ) fellow. NLC-NJ is the statewide chapter of the nation’s largest organization that develops, connects, and uplifts...
January 14, 2025 | In the News
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) hosted a panel to discuss the importance of immigration numbers, legal and illegal, and their impact on wages, the labor market, and the future of the American workforce. This timely panel, “Beyond the Border: Why Legal...
January 13, 2025 | In the News, News
Insurance companies are hiking costs, dropping N.J. homeowners more often due to climate risks By Steven Rodas | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com You can look to the rising seas, raging wildfires and the lack of snow. A harbinger for the changing climate has also arrived...
January 10, 2025 | In the News
‘What matters isn’t the delivery method but the quality and accessibility of local journalism’ The recent announcement that NJ Advance Media is ending print operations for several newspapers marks a pivotal moment for New Jersey journalism. While some view this...
January 10, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new two-part study written by Marc H. Pfeiffer examines the evolving landscape of state and local journalism in New Jersey during a critical transition from print to digital news delivery and challenges those changes mean for the publication of “official notices.”...
January 9, 2025 | In the News
The new top executive of the New Jersey agency dedicated to rooting out corruption and fraud claims principal residency in two states while working a second full-time job in Washington, D.C. Tiffany Williams Brewer, who was named as the chief executive officer of the...
January 9, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
By Will Irving READ REPORT R/ECON’s economic forecast for New Jersey as 2024 drew to a close once again shows a slowing trajectory, with annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2025 projected to slow more sharply than in the prior forecast. This is true even as...
January 8, 2025 | News
By Angie Nga Le In December 2024, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released a report on credential attainment among college students nationwide[1]. The six-year completion rate in New Jersey continued its upward trajectory, with the 2018 cohort...
January 6, 2025 | In the News
As the Township Committee refuses to return to in-person meetings, claiming they are not needed for citizen involvement, data shows meetings now are noticeably shorter and public participation is sharply reduced under the virtual format. An Asbury Park Press analysis...
January 6, 2025 | In the News
Nearly 100 New Jersey companies announced more than 13,300 layoffs combined in 2024, public records show, as white-collar sectors such as pharmaceuticals, banking and finance tightened job counts. The numbers are made public through New Jersey’s Worker Adjustment and...
January 6, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Does State-Level Structural Racism Impact Risk for Suicide Attempts Among US Adolescents Across Race And Ethnicity? Abstract Objective Our study examined the association between state-level structural racism and past year rates of suicide ideation (SI) and suicide...
December 18, 2024 | News
Originally Posted on the VTC Website After 25 years of dedicated service, Jon Carnegie, Executive Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, is retiring. With extensive experience in land use and transportation planning, Jon has led numerous impactful...
December 17, 2024 | News
By Angie Nga Le Between October 7 and November 14, 2024, the New Jersey State Policy Lab conducted a brief survey to gain insights into emerging issues and policy priorities in New Jersey. The survey aimed to inform the Policy Lab’s strategic research planning,...
December 17, 2024 | In the News
Convened by the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice co-chaired by Taja-Nia Henderson (Rutgers Law School) and Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard Kennedy School), the New Jersey Reparations Council is the first-of-its-kind commission to finally confront and repair New...
December 17, 2024 | In the News
A special Assembly committee in a unanimous vote Monday approved a controversial overhaul of New Jersey ballots that will write the county line out of state law. The bill, which follows a federal court decision that found New Jersey’s county-line system — a ballot...
December 17, 2024 | In the News
Lawmakers in Trenton voted unanimously to release an amended bill that would abolish New Jersey’s so-called county line primary ballot — long wielded as a political tool by party bosses who sometimes banished opponents to so-called “ballot Siberia.” Instead, New...
December 16, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Household income and county income inequality are associated with financial hardship among cancer survivors in New Jersey Abstract Purpose To examine how household income and county income inequality are linked to financial hardship among cancer survivors. Methods...
December 13, 2024 | In the News
Montclair Township on Thursday defended an employee-organized holiday party planned to be held in honor of its outgoing interim town manager. It is an event that one local government expert said speaks to a level of “tone deafness.” A sign for the party to be held in...
December 12, 2024 | News
By Carla Villacis, Kristin Curtis, Shaghayegh Poursabbagh, Oğuz Kaan Özalp, and Fawaz Al-Juaid Read Report The Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers-Camden (WRI) exists to conduct community-focused research that connects to the public policy and...
