July 15, 2024 | News
The Murphy Administration announced $21.1 million for 23 grants under the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program on July 10, 2024. The New Jersey Safe Routes to School Program, supported by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, is a statewide initiative with a...
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 | News
Deanna Moran, AICP (MPP/MCRP ’16) was named the Chief Coastal Resilience Officer by the Healey-Driscoll Administration to address climate change impacts along Massachusetts’ coastline. Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Rebecca Tepper announced...
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...
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...
