Media Coverage – Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

What Can Be Learned From Differing Rates of Suicide Among Groups

U.S. suicide rates vary widely across racial and ethnic groups in ways that can upend expectations. The explanations may suggest avenues for prevention. Suicide in America has been rising for two decades, with rates for white Americans consistently well above those for Asian-Americans, Black Americans and Hispanics. …factors may help protect Black Americans from suicide, despite conditions […]

The Constitution is not a suicide pact

Government sets the policies, public health professionals provide the rationale for them, and the people must acknowledge what is required and why to safeguard the public’s health.

Housing Field Reacts to Marcia Fudge HUD Nomination with surprise, frustration, and optimism

There are two strains of reaction to Fudge’s nomination in the housing world. One is a feeling that the choice by Biden of someone with little experience who clearly preferred another role reflects that he does not take housing policy as seriously as was hoped and that qualifications are taking a back seat to other […]

Over Half of People Want to Keep Working From Home Despite Feeling Less Connected to Coworkers

The transition to remote work has also affected certain populations differently: Younger workers reported feeling less motivated when working remotely compared to their older counterparts, while parents with children younger than 18 years reported having more disruptions throughout their day. “In general, having children at home both stresses out the workers and their productivity. The […]

How to Ask Your Boss to Help Cover Your Work-From-Home Costs

William Rodgers joins NBC News to discuss how employers or the government should chip in to help cover home office expenses of the millions of Americans now working from home. NBC New York, December 9, 2020

Pandemic Slows Economic Recovery

David Cruz talks with Economist & Rutgers Univ. Prof. Bill Rodgers about the latest jobs numbers & impact of a potential federal stimulus.Our panel of journalists- Colleen O’Dea from NJ Spotlight News, NJ 101.5’s Michael Symons & Katherine Landergan from Politico look at the latest headlines impacting the Garden State- federal stimulus, remote learning, cannabis, […]

In November, men dropped out of the workforce at higher rates than women

About 347,000 men left the workforce in November, compared to about 10,000 women. That’s in stark contrast to September, when 865,000 women left the labor force — four times the number of men that month. The drop-off is somewhat striking because aside from March and April of this year, when the majority of the pandemic-related job losses […]

As COVID-19 persists, more Americans are unemployed beyond 6 months. Does that carry a stigma even in a pandemic?

As the health crisis drags on, a growing share of the workers it has idled have been jobless six months or longer, placing them among the ranks of the long-term unemployed. Besides the financial fallout for affected households, there’s a broader toll for the economy, whose post-pandemic scars will also include more than 100,000 business […]

If Covid has made working from home our new normal, your boss and Uncle Sam should chip in

Working remotely isn’t new, but the United States has never seen it at its current scale.

What We Can Expect From the Economy and Labor Market in 2021

John Petrides, portfolio manager at Tocqueville Asset Management, and William M. Rodgers III, professor and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, join Cheddar to discuss economic health, vaccine optimism, and the labor market. Cheddar.com, November 30, 2021