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Foreclosures now 'normal' at 10-year low

Economist James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, explained that New Jersey’s economy has struggled from a number of causes since the recession. “New Jersey got hit hard by the contraction in the...

Report: Lawmakers didn't foresee issues with tax-credits program

Julia Sass Rubin, a Rutgers University professor, told the newspaper that state lawmakers' lack of financial expertise makes them vulnerable to outside firms that are pushing for the creation of tax-credits programs that disproportionately benefit investors. Maine...

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

Middle class is shrinking, says a new financial analysis

Joe Seneca, a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, agrees that stagnant salaries have contributed to the problem. He also said in recent years “a lot of the re-employment after the Great Recession has been in...

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