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Why flat permanent job loss in the month of July is concerning: Economist

August 10, 2020

Professor William M. Rodgers III of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development joined a Yahoo Finance On the Move panel to discuss the unexpected addition of 1.76 million jobs in July. Yahoo Finance "On the Move," August 7, 2020

A long road back from the devastation of COVID-19

August 7, 2020

The recession caused by COVID-19 and the various actions taken to help mitigate the spread of the infectious virus has been devastating to the nation’s economy, and many economists are calling it the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The numbers bear...

Low-income people need the $600 jobless benefit: Expert

August 6, 2020

CNBC’s Kelly Evans discusses whether Congress should extend the additional $600 in unemployment benefits the federal government provided people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic with Barry Knapp of Ironsides Macroeconomics and Bill Rodgers of...

Missing unemployment checks, scarce jobs in coronavirus economy

July 29, 2020

Rutgers analyst James Hughes says the cultural and economic landscape’s been forever altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. He notes New Jersey’s still short 600,000 jobs lost to the lockdown. As for all the jobseekers, his new report sketches a bleak economic recovery...

N.J. has nation’s 2nd highest unemployment rate even as we reopen. What that means for our economy

July 27, 2020

New Jersey is the only state in the nation to see the number of new coronavirus cases drop in the last two weeks, but the pandemic’s financial impact continues to grow, according to a new Rutgers study. The economic freeze, fueled by...

9 charts that show the good, the bad and the alarming of this early economic recovery

July 17, 2020

While stocks are soaring, so are applications for unemployment. Applications for jobless aid are still about seven times higher than before the pandemic, and people are lining up outside unemployment offices, desperate for help. Economists remain concerned that...

We asked an economist: How long will it take NJ to make a comeback?

July 16, 2020

NJ 101.5 talks with James Hughes (Bloustein) about the jobs increase since May, which he said is a positive trend, but said the state needs to recover 74% more in order to get back to February levels. NJ1015.com, July 16, 2020

COV-19, the recession, and state budgets: What are our choices?

July 7, 2020

This week Stuart Shapiro sits down with Bloustein School Senior Policy Fellow and former New Jersey Budget Director Richard Keevey, who reflects on his years of budgeting at both the state and national levels.

Obamacare enrollment sinks 11% — historically low unemployment is at least partly to blame

December 7, 2018

Regardless, the tight labor market is helping reduce dependence on the federal program, said Joel Cantor, the founding director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "The economy has increased employment rates and encouraged more...

Five-star luxury hotel, conference center eyes former Hoffmann-La Roche site

December 6, 2018

Throughout the region, millennials and the employers seeking to attract them want office environments with an urban feel, even if that means creating a mini-downtownwithin a suburban office park by adding walkways, restaurants and housing. In their evolution from the...