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...
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Missing unemployment checks, scarce jobs in coronavirus economy
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...
New Jersey politics: Why primary ballots make all the difference
Stuart Shapiro and Julia Rubin discuss her recent article on the role of political machines in New Jersey and how the design of ballots favor some candidates over others.
We asked an economist: How long will it take NJ to make a comeback?
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
COVID-19, Racial Injustice and Climate Change Require a Bold Approach, Not Incrementalism
With a nation rattled by a public health emergency, a deep recession that has left thousands jobless, and growing signs of climate change, it may be time for bold new ideas to address those crises. “This is too good a crisis to go to waste” was the message of the...
COV-19, the recession, and state budgets: What are our choices?
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.
Technology-driven worker dislocation: A persistent challenge in need of solutions
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....
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...
New Jersey's Economic Outlook for 2018 Is So-So, Accountants Say
While New Jersey hasn’t had any setbacks to annual job growth since the recession officially ended in 2009, the state has been adding about 45,000 jobs each year, a pace that has lagged both the national recovery and the rate of growth experienced during the 1990s as...
'Presenteeism' Is Not Your Fault: Why Workers Come to Work Sick
Twenty-three percent of American workers were laid off during the Great Recession, according to according to data from the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, but 79 percent of workers knew someone who was laid off – a family member,...
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Bloustein School Convocation
Jersey Mike's Arena 83 Rockefeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, United StatesThe formal BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL CONVOCATION ceremony will recognize each graduate individually with pomp and circumstance. Students will cross the stage and have their names read as they are recognized. Seating is general […]
Dissertation Proposal: Pixels, Plates, and Pesos: On Digital Food Delivery Platforms and Socio-Economic Change in the Philippines
Virtualpresented by Nasha Virata
Implications of Robotics for Public Policy
VirtualThis presentation offers a systematic analysis of the emerging routes by which applications of embodied artificial intelligence—robotics—elicit public policy responses.
2024 Transit-Oriented Development Symposium
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRegistration is now open for the 2024 TOD Symposium. This free full-day event will be held in person on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at the Edward J. Bloustein School of […]
2024 New Jersey Big Data Alliance Annual Symposium: Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Society & Higher Education
Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA) is an alliance of leading higher education institutions, government organizations and industry members that catalyzes research and collaboration in advanced computing and data […]