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....
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...
