“We’re facing the cliff, because those born in ’08… they’re just entering their high school graduating years,” said James Hughes, Dean Emeritus of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
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Lawyers Take Home Over $3 Million from School Buildings Fight
Marc Pfeiffer, the associate director of the Bloustein School at Rutgers, put it this way in a new report about the future of journalism in New Jersey: “Despite some contemporary criticisms of (editorial opinion),” he wrote, “it has, over many decades, helped generate public discourse and solve complex and controversial issues facing our society.”
Lights out: A final word from N.J.’s only editorial board
Marc Pfeiffer, the associate director of the Bloustein School at Rutgers, put it this way in a new report about the future of journalism in New Jersey: “Despite some contemporary criticisms of (editorial opinion),” he wrote, “it has, over many decades, helped generate public discourse and solve complex and controversial issues facing our society.”
Community health centers show large uptick in prescribing meds for opioid addiction
Lindenfeld and Mauri explained that efforts aimed at improving access to medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder at federally qualified health centers should particularly target facilities that serve a large proportion of nonwhite patients and patients experiencing homelessness.
Trump’s regs freeze trips up Biden’s green rules
“Regulatory freezes are standard practice for incoming administrations,” Stuart Shapiro, dean of the public policy school at Rutgers University, told POLITICO’s E&E News. “They want to pause any actions not completed by the previous administrations so they can decide whether they want to complete them.”
N.J. nonprofits brace for potential federal funding cuts under Trump
“If I were leading a nonprofit that was dependent on those kinds of grants, I’d be very worried,” said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy.
School Dropoff Is Everything That Sucks About Car Culture
Dr. Kelcie Ralph at Rutgers University found that even when controlling for income, wealth, residential location, family composition, and race, “young adults who were carless as children completed less education, worked for pay less often, experienced more unemployment, and earned less than their matched peers with consistent car access.”
Climate change risk hits NJ homeowners’ insurance
“There is a message that comes through, which is that insurers are leaving a lot of the riskier markets because they perceive it to be risky. There’s also a sort of a standard pattern of first they raise premiums and then eventually they exit that market,” Clinton Andrews,
A plan is moving forward in N.J. to let homeowners save tens of thousands of dollars on their mortgages
“It’s sort of a painless way of saving,” Hughes said. “Very few of us have the discipline to religiously put away a portion of our salary to build up equity.”
Salzman Presents on Why Legal Immigration Numbers Matter
The debate over high-skill guestworker supply is ongoing, with over 700,000 high-skill workers entering the U.S. annually through various programs, not just the H-1B visa. U.S. colleges, especially master’s programs, play a significant role in this supply chain, often targeting foreign students due to the financial benefits.