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How to get treated for long COVID in NY and NJ
Long COVID is a bummer. Even mild infections of the coronavirus are leading to weeks and months of lingering symptoms such as loss of smell, confusion due to mental brain fog, and fatigue. But severe outcomes, such as heart disorders and kidney disease, are appearing,...
Why It’s So Hard to Convince the Public on Transportation Projects
Engineers and the general public often hold attitudes on transportation topics that directly contradict core tenets of the transportation planning profession, and those differences are especially stark when it comes to reducing the use of automobiles, a new study...
American Dream mall in New Jersey faces new bond woes
The municipal bonds that helped finance the nation's second largest mall are showing signs of wobbling. The American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, was delayed for years, then opened shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 3, the trustee for $800...
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Social Media and Individuals’ Environment-Friendly Actions
Social media is increasingly seen as the primary platform for discourse on contemporary public policy issues. Higher levels of social media engagement, when combined with well-designed climate communication strategies, could lead to more efforts from citizens to adopt practices that address environmental issues
Nominations for Bloustein School Alumni Awards Being Accepted
Alumni are recognized by the Bloustein School Alumni Association in the Career Achievement (15+ years past degree completion) and Rising Star (fewer than 15 years since degree completion).
Why are Ocean, Monmouth counties growing while the NJ overall population shrinks?
The COVID-19 pandemic heavily influenced New Jersey residents' housing choices between 2020 and 2021, said James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Fears of catching the virus in crowded...
They get the job but never show up: Ghosting on the rise in NJ
As the New Jersey labor shortage continues, companies large and small are facing a growing problem: job applicants who are hired and accept a position with a start date, but then never show up at work and don’t even bother to communicate they have changed their mind...
Research: Are Transportation Planning Views Shared by Engineering Students and the Public?
The authors compared the policy preferences of transportation planning students, engineering students, and the public to identify points of consensus and divergence within and between the groups.
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Telehealth Use among Medicare Population during COVID-19: Advancements in Accessibility vs Challenges in Utilization
Researchers have found that differences in access to virtua health care delivery impact non-English speakers, lower-income individuals, older adults, and racial/ethnic minorities more heavily.
New Jersey Health Data Project Tackles State’s Pressing Health Needs
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy launched the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project this week to address some of the state’s most pressing health care issues including the opioid epidemic, maternal and infant health and New Jersey’s...
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Perspectives on Poverty in New Jersey, 2008-2020
‘Open data’ refers to government data, and all data that is made publicly available with little to no restrictions for use, reuse, and distribution, to support transparency, innovation, and creative interactions, leading to insights-driven value creation.
A lawsuit challenging NJ’s uniquely abysmal, toady-rewarding ballot system moves forward
There is a federal lawsuit filed by Pugach and a group of former candidates and advocacy groups that challenge the primary ballot system as unconstitutional, which received a de-facto vote of confidence from a federal judge on May 31, when the court ruled a motion to...