September 11, 2025 | In the News
Expanded cellular and Wi-Fi capabilities have made streaming surveillance camera data more common in recent years, says Marc Pfeiffer, associate director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center, part of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers...
September 9, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
About the Book Can digital innovation revitalize rural communities and preserve cultural heritage at the same time? This book dives into the transformative power of digitization in rural regions—where technology isn’t just a tool, but a lifeline for local culture,...
September 8, 2025 | In the News
Jersey City Medical Center and Kushner Real Estate may provide a significant chunk of new revenue that the city will use to help balance its next budget and keep property taxes at a minimum. Ward E Councilman James Solomon says he’ll be a no-vote. The city is using...
September 8, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Abstract The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) is widely used to identify common mental disorders among adults and has demonstrated strong validity in clinical populations, correlating strongly with established diagnostic tools. It offers a practical...
September 4, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Dean Stuart Shapiro served on a committee for a report titled “Simplifying Research Regulations and Policies” for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Read Report Executive Summary The U.S. scientific enterprise has produced...
September 3, 2025 | News
During the first week of September the newest cohort of Bloustein School international students were welcomed at a networking event. Current international graduate students and recent alumni shared their experiences, offering valuable advice about navigating life and...
September 3, 2025 | In the News
Is it true that when you widen a highway, congestion returns to the same level after a few years? Maude Martin Yes, adding roadways attracts more cars and perpetuates congestion, according to four researchers who have studied the issue in Canada and the United States....
September 3, 2025 | In the News
New Jersey property taxes are expensive, no doubt about it. In 2024, the average homeowner spent $10,095 in property taxes, according to the most recent state figures. That’s higher than a $10,000 limit the federal government put in place in 2018 for how much you can...
August 29, 2025 | News
NJ Communities Spotlight: Breast Cancer Diagnoses and Mortality Outcomes for Black Women Breast cancer is widely known as a disease that affects thousands of women within the United States and is the second leading cause of death due to cancer in New Jersey...
August 28, 2025 | News
The following is from the Safe Routes to School Blog. SRTS is an initiative of the Voorhees Transportation Center. Back to School, Back to Safety: Let’s Keep the Roads Safe for Everyone As flip-flops are traded for sneakers, neighborhoods across New Jersey shift gears...
August 27, 2025 | In the News
When she moved to the quiet Summit West community here two years ago, Beth Mann thought she had found an affordable home that would allow her to take a step back from her public relations business and lower her level of stress. But in June, she received a letter from...
August 26, 2025 | In the News
New Jersey office building vacancy rates remain high, more than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic emptied offices in the state and across the country. Many buildings, especially older, so-called “Class B” buildings, remain vacant or sparsely filled as employees...
August 22, 2025 | News
NJ Communities Spotlight: The Trouble with Neighborhood Trash Decades of research show a clear pattern that waste services are not always distributed equally amongst states, municipalities, townships, and even residents. Robert Bullard’s Dumping in Dixie first exposed...
August 22, 2025 | In the News
New Jersey homeowners and renters will soon be receiving Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters, aka ANCHOR, property tax relief payments in their mailboxes and bank accounts. Last year, the Garden State issued more than 2 million rebates...
August 21, 2025 | In the News
There’s positive news about jobs and tax collections, but federal policies may pose a threat Despite concerns about a shifting national economic landscape, New Jersey appears to be heading into the final stretch of summer with at least some momentum. For starters,...
August 21, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Attractive accessibility: Exploring disparities in attributes of primary care physicians in New Jersey by Yingning Xie and Michael Smart Highlights High competition results in moderate transit accessibility in census tracts near NYC. Infrastructure constraints limit...
August 18, 2025 | In the News
The $700 million-plus in projects state lawmakers added to this year’s budget favored competitive districts and those represented by Democrats, according to a New Jersey Monitor analysis of budget documents recently made public. A review of the nearly 600 budget...
August 18, 2025 | In the News
Amid the chaos of on-again, off-again tariffs — many of which went into effect on Aug. 7 after weeks of uneasy anticipation — is a bid by the Trump administration to entice manufacturing back to the U.S… New Jersey saw a long decline in manufacturing New...
August 18, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Can Collaboration Succeed in Siting a Spent Nuclear Fuel Facility in the United States?—A Challenge in Political Sustainability by Michael R. Greenberg, Henry J. Mayer, Megan Harkema, and Steven Krahn Abstract We examine the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s...
August 15, 2025 | In the News
Wall Street rating agency S&P Global has upgraded New Jersey’s credit rating for the third time under the tenure of outgoing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. The move to raise the rating one notch to A+ from A on Aug. 11 cites efforts by the Murphy administration to...
