November 1, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Not All “Review Bombing” Is Bad for Business Read the original article on Rutgers Today, October 31, 2024 For a business on the receiving end of “review bombs” – the sudden influx of online customer reviews following a political or cultural controversy – an...
October 31, 2024 | In the News
In New Jersey, 1 in 4 residents is an immigrant. Immigrants from Nepal are concentrated in Secaucus. In Morristown, those from Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico have a dominant presence. Migrants from Bengal are finding opportunities in Paterson, and that city, in...
October 31, 2024 | News
Alumna Leads Coverage of Those Close Election Polls for The Washington Post Following presidential polls has become an obsession for many voters, especially with the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck and neck less than a week before Election Day. Emily...
October 30, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Key influences on residential photovoltaic solar panel adoption in the United States by Diren Kocakusak (PhD ’21), Michael Greenberg, and Clinton J. Andrews Abstract The prevalence of low-density residential development to host solar PV, the ubiquity of solar...
October 29, 2024 | In the News
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Middle and high school teachers from Belleville, Jersey City, Kearny, Neptune, Newark, and New Brunswick honed their climate change knowledge and made connections to local experts in a four-day Climate and Data Literacy summer workshop on the...
October 29, 2024 | In the News
Job hunting has always been tough, but if you’re over 50, it feels like an uphill battle. This age group faces unique challenges, especially as the job market cools and automation changes the hiring game. Recently, a 54-year-old project manager took to Reddit to...
October 29, 2024 | In the News
Identifying populations at an increased risk for HIV and preventing outbreaks remain a challenge, but researchers are using tracking technology to find these at-risk individuals and provide treatment, as shown by a recent study and a new research program. More...
October 28, 2024 | In the News
The delay in adding seating for Long Island Rail Road riders at the mezzanine of Grand Central Madison could be the latest example of transportation providers deliberately forgoing customer comforts in order to dissuade homeless people from loitering at stations,...
October 25, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Family Welfare Team Concludes Two-Year Study, Provides DHS with Recommendations for Improvement in the TANF Program Researchers in the Family Welfare Department concluded a two-year, mixed methods evaluation for Maryland’s version of the federal Temporary...
October 24, 2024 | News
Young Voters Could Decide the 2024 Election MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle sat down with a group of students at Rutgers University in New Jersey, most of whom will be voting for the first time, to find out what issues are driving their vote — and what questions they’d...
October 22, 2024 | In the News
Property speculators have wreaked havoc on Detroit over the last decade. Some of the effects are easy to see: blighted properties that fall apart bit by bit for years. Some are easy to feel: historic buildings that sit vacant. Others are easy to measure, like lost tax...
October 21, 2024 | In the News
Now that the county line is headed to the dustbin of state history, leaders of the Assembly have created a bipartisan committee that will explore new ways to design ballots for New Jersey primaries. The Legislature, which often operates with dead-of-night efficiency,...
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....
