October 3, 2022 | News
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October 3, 2022 | In the News
Robert Menendez Jr., who may soon represent the 8th Congressional District, which includes the Holland Tunnel area, has floated a plan to include buses because the $4.7 billion highway-widening project has become “polarizing.” Menendez proposed that the...
October 3, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new Book Chapter by Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Michael R. Greenberg and Interim Dean Stuart Shapiro examines the history and future of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Published in Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, Edited by Alberto...
September 30, 2022 | News
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September 30, 2022 | News
Dr. Ruth Winecoff, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, won the 2022 Association of Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) Michael Curro Award Graduate Student Paper Award for “The Dodd-Frank Act and Municipal Borrowing Costs: Evidence from Nationwide...
September 29, 2022 | News
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September 28, 2022 | In the News
Bob Sommer is CEO, Awsom Associates, LLC, an adjunct lecturer at the Bloustein School, and member of the Bloustein School Advisory Board. By Bob Sommer nj.com 9/28/22 “You need to intellectualize my humor,” former Gov. Jim Florio once instructed me after I...
September 27, 2022 | In the News
Congratulations to Nicholas Klein, Kelcie Ralph, Calvin Thigpen, and Anne Brown on their article “Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform” being the most viewed article from the last Journal of the American Planning Association...
September 26, 2022 | News
The following is a repost from Rutgers University’s Facebook For #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’ve asked students to write an open letter detailing their heritage, their loved ones they share it with, and the lands they come from. Take the time to learn these...
September 26, 2022 | In the News
“Last week, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) introduced his long-awaited bill intended to shorten the permitting process for energy projects. A key component of the bill is hastening reviews required by the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) for such...
September 26, 2022 | News
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September 25, 2022 | In the News
Senior Policy Fellow Linda Stamato writes about the threat to the separation of church and state in this opinion piece published by nj.com “The Founding Fathers abhorred the concept of a national religion. They believed that state support would in the long run,...
September 23, 2022 | In the News
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows 22% of New Jerseyans worked from home in 2021, a more than fourfold increase over 2019. New Jersey has a greater share of people working from home than most other states. Rutgers University Professor Carl Van Horn, director of...
September 22, 2022 | News
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September 21, 2022 | News, Undergraduate Planning & Public Policy Student Spotlights
Nina Gohel Political Science/Planning and Public PolicyClass of 2023 Nina Gohel was part of the inaugural Rutgers Summer Service Internship (RSSI) Initiative launched this year by Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway. This special internship provides select students...
September 20, 2022 | In the News
More than a fifth of New Jersey workers ages 16 and older work remotely. A confluence of factors is likely responsible for the broad uptake of telecommuting in New Jersey — even after pandemic shutdowns forced immediate changes to work in 2020 — though long commute...
September 19, 2022 | News
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September 19, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been in development since the 1950s. However, due to the availability of big data and increased computing power, the AI market has grown substantially over the last decade and is expected to grow more than 20 percent annually over the...
September 16, 2022 | In the News
On September 15, 2022, freight railway companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement after President Joe Biden intervened in marathon negotiations to avert a strike that could have paralyzed the economy. “Sometimes there’s a narrative that, ‘Oh, I’m going...
September 16, 2022 | In the News
This report covers the period October 2020 through June of 2022. The CAO has found that the district has met a sufficient number of Accountability Scorecard metrics to meet the requirements of the Transition Plan to move toward full local control. While the district...
