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More Millennials Are Leaving the Nest to Form Their Own Households
From 2016 to 2021, nearly every state saw a spike in the number of young adults between the ages of 25 and 44 forming new households, a development with far-reaching implications for state populations, economic growth and infrastructure. For many millennials, the...
New Heldrich report: Benefits of Education in New Jersey
A new New Jersey Education to Earnings Data System report uses state and supplemental federal data sources to demonstrate that higher levels of education have a positive return on investment to the individual, the state, and society.
Another Interest Rate Hike – What it Means for NJ Residents
The Federal Reserve will once again raise interest rates Wednesday afternoon, but this time they’re only expected to bump them up a quarter of a percent, not half a percent like we’ve had for the past several months. According to Rutgers University economist James...
Trump and the Bureaucrats: The Fate of Neutral Competence. New Book by Interim Dean Stuart Shapiro
Disputes over the role of bureaucrats as experts and as politically neutral are more than a century old. But the Trump Administration’s position in these debates was very different. In his latest book, Stuart Shapiro uses 50 interviews to analyze neutral competence in the federal government.
EJB Talks: From Nurse to Policy Professional to Health Administration Program Director
Director of Health Administration and Professor Ellen Kurtzman talks about her career path from nurse to health policy educator and speaks about the commonalities in the fields she has worked in.
NJSPL – Aspects of Energy Inequity in New Jersey
New Jersey has reduced its energy consumption and cost in the past two years. But behind these achievements and strides in energy efficiency lies a grim reality—the distribution of costs and benefits within the U.S. energy system is disproportionate, thus creating inequities between people of various income levels and geographical residences.
Many More Single Women Than Men Are Homeowners. Here’s Why
On average, women earn 83 cents for every dollar a man makes — yet single women own roughly 10.7 million homes, compared to 8.1 million for single men, according to a recent analysis from LendingTree that looked at 2021 Census data. That’s a surprising statistic...
NJSPL – Youth Mental Health in NJ: Current Status and Opportunities for Support Service Improvement
The state is currently in the process of implementing a new initiative, the NJ Statewide Student Support Services Network (NJ4S), which is intended to overhaul the existing School Linked Services (SLS) program and aims to provide a wider reach to students and offer more access to social services.
Many NJ customers can’t get help with overdue bills because of reluctant utilities
Customers owe New Jersey’s water and sewer utilities tens of millions in unpaid bills, debts that have thousands of families facing shut-offs. While a Low Income Household Water Assistance program offers up to $5,000 to eligible families to avoid that prospect, only...
A Push for More Oversight of New Jersey’s Colleges
Proposed legislation would enforce financial transparency for public institutions after one university nearly collapsed. Some say the bills are redundant, others that they don’t go far enough. Linda Stamato, former chair of the Board of Governors at Rutgers, the...
Rithikha Rajamohan MCRP ’23 debuts film “Sympoiesis” at the New Jersey Film Festival 1/28/23
MCRP candidate Rithikha Rajamohan created a film for an Experimental Filmmaking course that was chosen to screen at the 41st New Jersey Film Festival. She reflects on the inspiration for the film and how it ties in to her work in Urban Planning.
NJ Downtowns Are Breathing New Life Into Empty Old Banks
Downtown banks used to be where eager home buyers applied for mortgages, workers cashed hard-earned paychecks, and youngsters watched nickels and dimes grow in their first savings accounts. But in recent decades, ATM machines and online banking have made these once...