“The aircraft carrier that is the U.S. health care system has made a sweeping turn,” said Joel Cantor, founding director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University. He said it would be difficult to change course once again after the myriad of reforms brought about by the 10-year-old law, including the ways hospitals and […]
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New Jersey just experienced its second-hottest summer on record, yet another sign of how climate change has intensified temperatures across the Garden State. But people in urban areas — which tend to lack greenery to break up the concrete landscapes — are more regularly exposed to dangerous heat than folks in suburban and rural areas. […]
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An op-ed from Linda Stamato and Sandy Jaffe explores the possibilities for policy development following the pandemic. They note that states should work together to embrace as many aspects of our regional existence as possible in order to aid, rather than inhibit, the reopening of the economy. The policy of reciprocity, synchronizing sales tax rates, […]
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A new report finds it will take years for the New Jersey economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. But a complete job-loss rebound could take decades. According to Michael Lahr, a professor of planning and public policy and director of the Rutgers University Economic Advisory Service, 16.7% of New Jersey’s 4.2 million jobs were lost between […]
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Academic research has shown that perceptions of risk of COVID-19 varies with the level of support for President Trump. It doesn’t require much of a leap of imagination that perceptions of risk regarding other highly politicized issues such as crime and climate change evince a similar pattern. Why does it matter? People’s behavior and actions are influenced by […]
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That’s what makes the data-driven approach to saving lives so problematic, says Charles T. Brown, a senior researcher and professor at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, who wrote the book’s foreward and served as Schmitt’s technical adviser. “What is revered or put forth as a best practice or as evidence-based is really […]
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An op-ed by William Rodgers discusses a Congressional proposal whereby the Federal Reserve would gain a new task: reducing racial inequality. Dr. Rodgers addresses how the proposal could tackle Black unemployment, provide Blacks with more opportunity for credit, and provide a forum for reporting on racial, ethnic, gender, and educational gaps in income and wealth. MarketWatch, August […]
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Physicians in underrepresented racial/ethnic groups exhibited lower rates of burnout vs. non-Hispanic white physicians, but more research is needed to confirm these findings, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open. In a related editorial, Joel C. Cantor, ScD, of the Center for State Health Policy, and Dawne M. Mouzon, PhD, MPH, of the Edward J. Bloustein School of […]
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The 300-mile New York to D.C. ride aims to highlight barriers people of color face in biking. washingtonpost.com “Our mobility has been arrested,” said Charles Brown, who is Black and is one of the nation’s top leaders in transportation equity and justice. Washington Post, August 26, 2020 (subscription required)
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Poll watchers sometimes obsess over small differences in topline numbers, even those within a poll’s reported margin of sampling error. But those differences pale in comparison to the size of the differences noted above. For those living in a world which hangs on every 1- or 2-point shift in the polls, the range of results […]
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