Bloustein School faculty fellow and Co-Director of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Linda Stamato writes how boycotts focusing on local franchises with apparent Russian connections -- to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine and its leadership...
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Murphy’s property-tax relief proposal, a boon to more taxpayers
Marc Pfeiffer recently spoke with NJSpotlightNews about Gov. Murphy’s expanded property-tax relief program for both homeowners and renters in the context of previous property-tax relief efforts in New Jersey. NJSpotlight News, March 11, 2022
Opinion: Kafka would find rich material in the American system of health care billing
As an academic who has taught U.S. #healthcarepolicy for over two decades and published numerous studies about #healthinsurance and #healthcaremarkets, Bloustein School distinguished professor of #publicpolicy and director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy...
NJ gas prices soaring, but will that give a jolt to electric vehicle sales?
Robert B. Noland, director Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, said New Jersey's goal of getting half of new vehicles sold to be electric by 2030 is in line with Europe and other states. Getting there won't be easy. The increase in...
COVID-19 laid bare gaps in NJ public health. Here’s how foundations propose to fix that
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of New Jersey’s underfunded and understaffed public health system, and now two New Jersey-based foundations have proposed a public health institute for the state — and have offered the seed money to get it started. ...
Inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, sharpest spike since 1982
Inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, it's the sharpest spike since 1982, according to a report released Thursday by the Labor Department. Bread, meat, eggs, milk, fruit, even coffee have all increased. But the question is why? The inflation we are seeing today is...
In Democratic Bastion, Liberal Rhetoric Is Out. ‘Affordability’ Is In.
In the first budget address of his second term, Gov. Philip Murphy responded to New Jersey voters’ discontent at a time of surging gas costs and high taxes. Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at theEdward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers...
Interest rate increases are coming – How much more will you pay in NJ?
With inflation continuing to heat up dramatically the Federal Reserve is expected to approve the first of many interest rate increases next week. Rutgers University economist James Hughes said no one is sure whether we’ll see an increase of a quarter percent, a half...
Murphy’s property-tax rebate proposal adds renters
Last week Gov. Murphy announced a property-tax relief program that could benefit renters. Senior policy fellow Marc Pfeiffer explains that the funding is coming from income tax and directly benefits people paying those taxes (segment starts at 6:40) NJ Spotlight News,...
Land value tax helps realize the Richmond 300 vision
Since the 1990s, Richmond’s story largely has been one of success. Spurred and supported by the expansion of the Mid-Atlantic Interstate 95 corridor, the city saw employment increase, population loss reverse and median incomes increase from $24,000 in 1990 to $54,000...