The city says there are 7,000 units under construction now and another 19,000 approved. James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, cited the city's booming residential construction sector as one of the...
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Learning How to Job-Hunt
Most workforce programs provide a short burst of cash, to tide people over until they can get back to work, or help young people earn a degree so they can land a higher-paying job. They’re designed to help the short-term unemployed, notes Carl Van Horn, the...
Is the NJ job market really building momentum?
“I think we have reasonable momentum going into 2016, however there is always a concern about the quality of jobs, and that’s a concern nationally as well, according to James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers...
3 Shore employers who are hiring
"We ended the year with a bang, that’s for sure," Rutgers University economist James W. Hughes said. "I’m not saying we have economic liftoff, but it certainly is a good way to enter 2016." The unemployment report is a survey of employers to measure the number of jobs...
N.J. added 13,300 jobs in December, for 65,200 in 2015
The state has now recovered just over 80 percent of the 258,000 jobs lost as a result of the recession. James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, called it a “strong report.” He noted that the jobless...
Is NJ's economy starting to gain momentum?
Ever since the Great Recession officially ended five years ago, the New Jersey economy has been lagging behind the rest of the nation, but new data suggests the Garden State may finally be turning a corner. “We added 31,200 jobs in 2014, but it looks like we’ll add...
Rutgers to monitor tax-incentive jobs
The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy would study the impact of tax incentive programs that the state is increasingly using to attract and ... Asbury Park Press.com, May 27
Sweeney assails Christie on N.J. economy
A recent forecast by Rutgers University economist Nancy Mantell projected that New Jersey wouldn't reach its prerecession peak of 4.09 million jobs until mid-2017. By contrast, the national economy had recovered all the jobs it lost in the recession by May 2014....
NJ's long term jobless rate among highest in the nation
Economist James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said that although the state is doing worse than the nation in the U-6 category — the national average was 12 percent — there are signs of hope that the...
N.J. seeks a way to recover its innovation sector
"We are not talking about a disaster movie here," said Carl Van Horn, director for the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, who is a member of the New Start New Jersey advisory board. "But we are talking about something that needs...
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