A $60 million boondoggle created to benefit large investment firms? Or a program that will create much-needed jobs in rural areas? That's the debate over a new rural jobs tax credit program that made it into the final proposed budget the General Assembly sent to Gov....
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Monmouth University Kislak Real Estate Institute honors Dean Hughes with Service to The Industry Award
On Thursday, May 28, Bloustein School Dean James W. Hughes received the Monmouth University Kislak Real Estate Institute (KREI) Service to the Industry Award at its 22nd annual Leadership Excellence Award dinner. More than 500 real estate executives and professionals...
EJB analysis finds PSE&G will be economic engine for New Jersey
A new economic analysis conducted by researchers at the Bloustein School finds that from 2011 to 2021,Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) investments in New Jersey’s electric transmission network will be a powerful stimulant of the state’s economy. The...
Bloustein School, Louis Berger Group announce 2014-15 fellows
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and The Louis Berger Group have announced the selection of the Louis Berger Graduate Fellows for the upcoming academic year. The 2014-15 Fellows are Guadalupe Gutierrez-Escribano,...
Hughes: NJ needs to "retrofit suburbia" to accommodate the new lifestyle requirements of young millennials
With one-quarter of New Jersey’s office space lying vacant, the state needs to engage in "retrofitting suburbia" in order to make spaces more attractive to young millennials, according to Dean James W. Hughes. He noted that the tech economy is moving to Brooklyn, and...
R/ECON event to review NJ’s real estate market, speed of economic recovery
On Friday, May 9, the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON)semiannual subscriber forecast and conference will examine the pace of New Jersey’s economic recovery and provide insight into aspects of the real estate market that are helping establish momentum for the...
Urban planning students see freight systems, supply chain management in action at Port Newark
A group of Bloustein School graduate students and lecturer Anne Strauss-Weider met with Beth Ann Rooney, Director of Port Security for the Port Authority of NY & NJ (far right) and Scott Schoenfeld, the Chief Operating Officer for the Port Newark Container...
Sen.Cory Booker to host forum for women small business owners at EJB, April 11
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will host a forum for women small business owners on at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy on Friday, April 11 to highlight federal resources available to help entrepreneurs and to discuss solutions for common...
Register Today: Is There a STEM Worker Shortage? March 12 in Washington, DC
Are more graduates and guestworkers needed? The ongoing debate about these issues, and congressional high-skill immigration proposals, will be discussed at the National Academies by some of the key researchers and policy analysts examining these issues. As Congress...
Planning student earns supply chain management award
The New Jersey Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP-NJ) recently announced Randy Fixman MCRP ’14 as the recipient of the organization’s 2013 Bronze Scholarship for his capstone report on integrating multimodal freight centers into...