As popular outrage at pedestrian deaths faded, the media’s attention waned, too. The national auto safety debate prompted by the 1965 publication of Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed focused, like the book itself, primarily on hazards to car occupants, not...
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Higher inflation and interest rates? No problem so far for New Jersey’s job market
The monthly jobs report, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is made up of a survey of employers to measure the number of jobs and a survey of households to measure the unemployment rate. April's report showed the state's job market continues to rapidly...
Biden housing plan includes first attempts to slow corporate landlords active in NC
But until such legislation is passed, some experts say governments might be limited in how they can regulate corporate landlords. “There’s not a whole lot that the government can do directly to intervene,” said Eric Seymour, a Rutgers University housing researcher and...
Why Do So Many News Articles About Crashes Feel Like They Were Written by a Car?
News organizations need to relearn how to cover car collisions—especially when the victims are on foot. On the evening of Nov. 13, Roy Saravia Alvarez was walking home along the sidewalk of West Glebe Road in Alexandria, Virginia. At around 8 p.m., the driver of a...
How a Holmdel July 26 special election could bring changes to local elections, government
Voters will decide this summer if the township should change its form of government and how often it should hold local elections. ** According to a March presentation to the commission by Julia Sass Rubin, professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy at...
Gas prices rise to record highs again
Gas peaked at $1.39 a gallon back then, which would be $4.52 today. Action News spoke to Michael Lahr, an economics professor at Rutgers University. "What may happen, not real soon though, is that companies will use these raises in prices to invest in capital to get...
Gas prices hit all-time highs across Philadelphia, tri-state area
Gas prices across the tri-state hit another record high on Monday, just ahead of the busy summer driving season. It's $4.64 a record gallon in Philadelphia, 14 cents above the statewide average. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware are also at all-time highs. It's...
NJ’s official ideas factory for new policies
This article by Katie Crist features the work of the New Jersey Policy Lab "Chosen through an application process of the state’s higher education institutions, the Rutgers-based research center was launched with a $1 million grant from the Office of the Secretary of...
The war we don’t need between New Jersey and New York | Opinion
New Jersey has acted to withdraw from the powerful bi-state Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, which polices one of the world’s largest natural harbors and the busiest on the East Coast. But New York objects to any unilateral move by New Jersey to...
After COVID, key hospitals get funding for next emergencies
While legislative leaders provided no details when they added the trauma center funding to last year’s budget late in the process — it was not part of Murphy’s original plan — budget documents indicate it was aimed at helping them improve “their ability to respond to...