April 19, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
New policies and broader subsides are needed to help lower-income buyers afford used electric vehicles, according to a Rutgers study As early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) trade up for the latest models, the used EV market is beginning to mature in the United...
April 19, 2024 | In the News
By Julia Sass Rubin New Jersey is at an inflection point. For most of the past century, we have been a political machine state, controlled by a handful of men who run our largest county party organizations. The political machines have stayed in power with the help of...
April 17, 2024 | In the News
Essex County pushed hard and fast to get its residents vaccinated against COVID-19. Ultimately, the county administered more than 622,000 vaccinations. But a report released Tuesday by the acting state comptroller says problems plagued how the county spent some of its...
April 11, 2024 | In the News
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Taps 188 Artists, Scholars, Photographers, Novelists, Essayists, Poets, Historians, Choreographers, Environmentalists, and Data Scientists to the Ranks of 19,000 Fellows Honored Since 1925. Now in 99th year, the John Simon...
April 11, 2024 | In the News
The day after Bob Menendez, New Jersey’s senior senator, was indicted for corruption, Andy Kim, a congressman, announced he would take on his powerful fellow Democrat in the upcoming Senate race. But the bigger obstacle to his bid was not Mr Menendez, whose support...
April 8, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Emergency Department Peer Support Program and Patient Outcomes After Opioid Overdose Key Points Question Is implementation of an emergency department (ED)–based peer recovery support program for opioid overdose associated with improvements in initiation of medication...
April 8, 2024 | In the News
The party line, a routine fixture of New Jersey primaries for nearly 80 years, appears to be doomed to the dustbin of Garden State political history. But major questions now loom: Will the demise of this quirky, only-in-New Jersey ballot feature truly drain the power...
April 4, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey would spend $250 million in taxpayer funds for students to attend private schools under new legislation that public school advocates are bashing as an ill-disguised effort to create a voucher program here. The bill would give residents a tax break for...
April 4, 2024 | In the News
Mass layoffs — 4,621 positions — are in store for New Jersey so far in 2024, according to public filings. You can check the exact layoffs on our database, which is browsable by topic, location and keyword. The layoffs include 2,774 job cuts announced in 2023 for this...
April 4, 2024 | In the News
For decades, the ballot-line format has been a fundamental element of New Jersey’s primary elections across both parties. All of New Jersey, except for Sussex and Salem counties, currently use this format. Though there are slight variations by county, they’re best...
April 3, 2024 | In the News
As the court stood firm on its ruling to end the “county-line” ballot system for this year’s Democratic primary, one candidate for the party’s nomination in the House’s 8th District stepped up his arguments against the line. Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla was one of...
April 2, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
The Heldrich Center is pleased to release “New Jersey’s Teacher Workforce Landscape: 2024 Annual Report,” the first in a series of annual reports examining the teacher workforce in New Jersey. This report uses data from the New Jersey Statewide Data...
April 2, 2024 | In the News
A political earthquake just took place in New Jersey. The state’s powerful political machines, which have dominated Garden State politics and dictated its policies for much of the last century, lost their most potent tool — the “county line” primary ballot....
April 1, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey moved a step closer last week toward overhauling its unique-in-the-nation election ballots, in a decision that could reshape party politics in the state for years to come. But not — at least not immediately — for both major parties. On Saturday, the federal...
April 1, 2024 | In the News
It’s called the “county line” — and it’s been the stuff of backroom Jersey politics that allowed party bosses to play an outsized role for decades in determining the winners and losers on election day. Now, a federal judge may have changed all of that with a 49-page...
