February 24, 2024 | In the News
The videos, culled from police body cameras, can draw millions of views on YouTube with salacious titles, like “19-Year-Old Girl Keeps Crying and Lying during DWI Arrest” and “Pregnant Housekeeper Arrested After Stealing Breast Pump and Baby Clothes.” They feature,...
February 21, 2024 | In the News
I got a lot of responses to my Friday newsletter on restricting the supply of fossil fuels, one of which said “oof no” in the subject line. It was from an economist named Benjamin Ho, who wrote that he usually likes my newsletter, “But, oh boy, was today’s off track.”...
February 21, 2024 | In the News
Marc Pfeiffer, the assistant director of Bloustein Local, a division of the Center for Urban Policy Research with The New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) presented ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTS as the first in a series of free...
February 16, 2024 | In the News
Imagine there were no law against arson and we were trying to figure out a way to stop it. One way would be to require people to pay for the right to burn down buildings. Another would be to issue a strictly limited number of tradable arson-permission certificates,...
February 15, 2024 | In the News
Republicans introduced just 6% of the bills that became state law in New Jersey’s last legislative session, even though they held 41% of legislative seats. That’s not exactly eureka! news for anyone who follows politics in Trenton, where Democrats control the...
February 14, 2024 | In the News
The governing board of the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project in December approved the release of data – along with pilot funding and data access fee waivers – for six research proposals to study the top challenges of the state’s population...
February 14, 2024 | In the News
The strike was called off. In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, Las Vegas’s branch of the Culinary Workers Union, known as Local 226, had planned to strike over a dozen independent downtown properties—Circus Circus, The Mirage/Hard Rock, the Westgate, and the...
February 14, 2024 | In the News
On February 8, 2024, Dr. Patti O’Brien-Richardson led a conversation on balance titled “Prioritizing Faculty Wellness” at the Rutgers Club. The event was hosted by Rutgers University Equity and Inclusion, Faculty Diversity Collaborative
February 14, 2024 | In the News
A bipartisan group of state fiscal-policy experts is raising new concerns about the long-term trajectory of New Jersey’s state budget and finances, even as the nation itself seems to be absorbing the worst effects of high inflation. During a news conference Tuesday...
February 13, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey could face staggering deficits in the next few years even if the state does not move to raise spending, according to a series of projections by the Sweeney Center for Public Policy. “There are certain things that the state is committed to by constitution or...
February 12, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Abstract We analyze the effect of a bicycle lane on traffic speeds. Computer vision techniques are used to detect and classify the speed and trajectory of over 9,000 motor-vehicles at an intersection that was part of a pilot demonstration in which a bicycle lane was...
February 12, 2024 | In the News
Many voters in New Jersey do not know that we are the only state in the country to use a confusing, undemocratic form of ballot, but it’s true – and a source of corruption. It’s called, seemingly innocuously, the “county line.” Every two years at a minimum, the line...
February 9, 2024 | In the News
With so few policy differences between Andy Kim and Tammy Murphy, the ballot benefit of the county line has dominated the race so far. Murphy is expected to have it in all but the more small-d democratic counties, where the decisions of political bosses don’t carry as...
February 9, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new Heldrich Center national survey of U.S. workers finds that 8 in 10 (82%) workers say it is very or somewhat important that the government in Washington, D.C. ensures that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies do not cause U.S. workers to lose their jobs....
February 8, 2024 | In the News
Professor Mark Paul joins Emma Vigeland on The Majority Report podcast, diving right into the inspiration for his piece on an Economic Bill of Rights (and his economic work as a whole) in seeing the richest nation in history make its citizens suffer through the 2008...
February 8, 2024 | In the News
On January 23, the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics released an updated ranking of the proportions of women serving in each state legislature across the country. CAWP found that there was a decrease in the number of...
