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COVID what’s next: Can NJ unemployment handle second-wave shutdown?

August 11, 2020

The Bergen Record reports on the impact on New Jersey with a second wave of unemployment quoting James W. Hughes. (subscriber access required) Bergen Record, August 11, 2020

Research: Lead levels in investor-owned housing in Detroit

August 11, 2020

Investor-landlords who purchase foreclosed properties appear less likely than other owners to maintain their acquisitions.

Cutting off our most vulnerable – Intimate partner violence in a pandemic

August 11, 2020

Those facing intimate partner violence can be a particularly vulnerable population during stay-at-home orders.

Public Health Undergraduate: Kristin Howard

August 11, 2020

I chose Public Health because I want to use my knowledge of health disparities and community health to effectively work in a health administrative career.

White Docs on the Short End of One Racial Disparity

August 10, 2020

In an accompanying commentary, Joel C. Cantor, ScD, and Dawne M. Mouzon, PhD, both of Rutgers University, were skeptical of the results, suggesting that the Stanford group perhaps didn't dig deep enough. "Prior work has shown that primary care physicians experience...

Why flat permanent job loss in the month of July is concerning: Economist

August 10, 2020

Professor William M. Rodgers III of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development joined a Yahoo Finance On the Move panel to discuss the unexpected addition of 1.76 million jobs in July. Yahoo Finance "On the Move," August 7, 2020

Pandemic perspectives through the lens of future planners and policy-makers

August 10, 2020

Grad students discuss their experiences at the start of the pandemic, and how their perspectives have changed.

If we don’t receive stimulus, ‘we’re going back into recession’: economist

August 9, 2020

Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist, joins The Final Round to discuss his thoughts on what’s driving the markets, how investors should be thinking about the July jobs report and the impact of a stalling stimulus plan might have on the economy. Professor...

COVID-19 is giving many New Jersey suburbs a big boost

August 7, 2020

Most sectors of the commercial real estate market in New Jersey have been badly hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s not the case with residential real estate. It turns out home sales in many parts of the Garden State are doing great. According to Rutgers...

Can NJ’s ongoing power outage problems ever be solved?

August 7, 2020

Every time there’s a significant storm — whether it’s rain, wind snow or ice — millions of residents in the state lose their electricity for an extended period of time. Professor Frank Felder, the director of the Rutgers University Center for Energy, Economic and...

A long road back from the devastation of COVID-19

August 7, 2020

The recession caused by COVID-19 and the various actions taken to help mitigate the spread of the infectious virus has been devastating to the nation’s economy, and many economists are calling it the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The numbers bear...