Dr. Hetling is a Professor of Public Policy at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Co-Principal Investor of the New Jersey State Policy Lab.
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Research Day 2022
The Bloustein School held the first Research Day on April 8, with faculty and staff giving five-minute Lightning Talks about their research.
New Jersey Policy Lab: Is Telehealth Making Healthcare More Accessible For the LGBTQ+ Community?
Using telehealth, providers have reported reaching more vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations by addressing and reducing numerous barriers to care; in New Jersey, telehealth interventions are particularly useful in reaching the LGBTQ+ community.
New Jersey Policy Lab: Has New Jersey’s Housing Market Peaked? A New Year’s Assessment
The available stock of both single-family and townhouses for sale has been progressively falling since July 2021 when it reached a pandemic peak. But even that peak was close to a third of numbers ten years prior.
New Jersey Policy Lab: The Challenges Associated with Making “Good” Public Policy
Policy analysis can illuminate the choices but, like science, it cannot answer questions definitively. The goal of policy analysis, and the New Jersey Policy Lab, is to provide decision-makers with the best information possible available to make better decisions.
New Jersey Policy Lab: Evidence-based policymaking on the federal level
Evidence-based policymaking uses the best available research and data to target resources to programs and policies that are proven to work, guiding decision-making using results-driven solutions and rigorous data analysis.
Research: Generational wealth matters
Income at life events represents the many ways that generational wealth can drive the contrast in incomes between white and Black households.
Domestic violence can also take the form of economic abuse
Defining economic abuse in legislation won’t necessarily help survivors get out of coerced debt or regain financial stability, said Russell. Still, she hopes it offers a foundation to build on because financial wellbeing is crucial to leaving an abusive relationship...
Debt. Inaccessible accounts. Job sabotage. Domestic violence survivors often suffer economic abuse, too
Defining economic abuse in legislation won’t necessarily help survivors get out of coerced debt or regain financial stability, said Russell. Still, she hopes it offers a foundation to build on because financial wellbeing is crucial to leaving an abusive relationship...
Dawne Mouzon, Kelcie Ralph receive Rutgers University Research Council Program Awards
The Research Council provides seed funding for faculty research to encourage scholarship tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts.
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