This week on EJB Talks Assistant Professor Zoe Lindenfeld talks to Dean Stuart Shapiro about her research on substance use disorders, particularly the opioid crisis, and its ties to healthcare access and policy. She explains how her interest in the field was sparked by the opioid epidemic’s emergence as a public health crisis.
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People are moving out of New Jersey – But is that a good thing?
Several studies have shown that many New Jersey residents are moving out of the state at a high rate. New Jerseyans say that the high cost of living in the state is forcing them to move to Pennsylvania and elsewhere. But as a state with an already high population, and...
Have Office Parks Become Obsolete?
The same demographic trends threatening New Jersey’s malls have left the state with dozens of abandoned office parks—sometimes referred to as “gray fields”—and countless vacancies in suburban office buildings. Lately, however, technology has changed the workplace...
The New Jersey counties that are growing (or shrinking) the fastest
According to James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Jersey has seen a “new demographic normal” since 2010 as people step away from the suburbs they once clamored for, and instead move into the...
County expects population loss in next census
Sussex County remains on pace to lose population between 10-year U.S. censuses for the first time in a century. The Census Bureau's annual population estimates, released Thursday, showed the county's population decreasing from 145,004 in 2014 to 143,673 in 2015. It...
Bergen leads population growth trend, halts flow to other parts of N.J.
A decades-long population shift from northeastern New Jersey to other parts of the state has come to an abrupt halt, with Bergen and Hudson counties leading a new growth trend that has potentially broad financial, political and social implications. The New Jersey...
NJ leads the US in ‘outmigration’
"Between 2010 and 2015, New Jersey had a net domestic migration loss of 269,194 people — that is a net figure: 269,194 more people moved from New Jersey to the rest of the country than people from the rest of country moved to New Jersey," said James W. Hughes,...
New York Life could move 325 employees to Jersey City
"Filling that building with other tenants is really a significant achievement for the waterfront," said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Crain's New York Business, April 14
Immigrant influx is helping to fill an economic gap in New Jersey
“New Jersey has always been an immigration destination,” said James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. “That goes back to the first wave of immigrants from Europe well over 100 years ago.” NJ101.5.com, April...
Hudson County fastest growing county in state, new U.S. Census data shows
"This is really what we'd call a demographic long wave," James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University told NJ Advance Media. "It's been going on for a long time and it will continue to go on. The result is a sustained...
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Virtual Career Drop-ins
VirtualStop by virtually on Mondays (except for holidays) beginning February 3 through April 28 between 11 am and 1 pm to ask a quick (15 min) career-related question of Bloustein […]
POSTPONED Rutgers University Winter Career and Internship Fair
Sonny Werblin Recreation Center 656 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, United StatesAfter careful consideration due to forecasted weather conditions, the Office of Career Exploration and Success (CES) has made the difficult decision to postpone the in-person Winter Career & Internship Mega Fair scheduled for February 11 […]
Virtual Information Session: Master of City and Regional Planning/Master of City and Regional Studies
VirtualYou are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the Rutgers-Bloustein School's Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) and Master of City and Regional Studies […]
Bloustein Librarian Open Office Hours
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesHave a research or library question you need assistance with? Visit Open Office Hours with Bloustein Librarian Julia Maxwell. Every Tuesday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in the Civic Square […]
Inside the Black Box: Mapping Neighborhood Boundaries in a Muslim Informal Settlement. Case of Jamia Nagar, Delhi, India
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesPresented by Zehra Mahdi, Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and doctoral candidate at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, […]