by Carl Van Horn, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Director, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development The potential impacts of robotics, artificial intelligence, and digital economy technologies on American workers raise alarming questions....
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R/ECON conference to discuss NJ's legacy a decade after the start of the Great Recession, Jan. 10
New Jersey has been fundamentally transformed during the long recovery from the Great Recession. What impact does this have on the state’s future economic prospects? On Wednesday, January 10, 2018, the R/ECON semiannual subscriber conference, "New Jersey’s Legacy a...
NJ jobs: Jersey Shore employers put out help-wanted signs
Trade, transportation and utilities, a sector that includes retailers, lost 1,400 jobs last month. Rutgers University economist James W. Hughes said it could be a sign retailers in the digital age are hiring fewer workers for their bricks-and-mortar stores. Still, New...
Preserving History Boosts Local Economies
An area doesn’t need to be on the National Register in order to be a local historic district, and vice versa. Standards for local districts often grow out of national ones, but what constitutes a local historic district depends on the place. The age of the property...
New Jersey budget challenges are significant and immediate
The new governor faces immediate budget problems. After inauguration in January 2018, the Budget for fiscal year 2019 must be submitted in March. And for the first six months of 2018, the governor must manage the budget he will inherit — and end with the year in...
Sandy's economic impact softens
For the most part, the state of New Jersey has “bounced back” from superstorm Sandy on an economic level, according to Dr. James Hughes and Marc Pfeiffer, of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. However, there are...
One in Five U.S. Workers Laid Off in Last Five Years, Report Says
One in five U.S. workers, nearly 30 million people, say they were laid off from their jobs in the last five years, according to a new survey that highlights lasting scars from the spike in U.S. long-term unemployment following the last recession. While the extent of...
Poll finds mounting frustration with economy
A new Rutgers University economics study paints a bleak picture of the economic recovery, finding that 20 percent of workers lost their job in the last five years. One in five, or 30 million people, have been laid off from a job since June 2009, according to...
Why your college major doesn't always matter
Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs famously told President Obama that Apple would have located 200,000 iPhone manufacturing jobs in the United States, rather than China, if he could have found 8,700 qualified industrial engineers in the U.S. This exchange and...
Reinventing our suburbs, our state, and our future
Here in New Jersey, it's time to anticipate new social and development patterns, reimagine our suburbs, and prepare for a new generation of prosperity. Start by considering some history, courtesy of the superb new book New Jersey's Postsuburban Economy by Rutgers...
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Virtual Information Session: Master of Health Administration
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