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Call for Nominations for Rutgers Beloved Community Initiatives
The Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes of Rutgers University Equity and Inclusion is excited to announce the call for award nominations and art submissions for Beloved Community Initiatives and have extended the deadlines.
Inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, sharpest spike since 1982
Inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, it's the sharpest spike since 1982, according to a report released Thursday by the Labor Department. Bread, meat, eggs, milk, fruit, even coffee have all increased. But the question is why? The inflation we are seeing today is...
A Multi-Decennial Census Data Set for NJ, 2010 and 2020 (and More): A New Jersey State Policy Lab Offering
This census-based product will appeal to municipal governments within the State of New Jersey because it is provided in an easily read format (Microsoft Excel) but also provides historical reference and shows change across New Jersey’s counties and municipalities since the last decennial census.
In Democratic Bastion, Liberal Rhetoric Is Out. ‘Affordability’ Is In.
In the first budget address of his second term, Gov. Philip Murphy responded to New Jersey voters’ discontent at a time of surging gas costs and high taxes. Julia Sass Rubin, a professor at theEdward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers...
BEAT’s “Transportation Talks” with Bill Moyer, Director of Solutionary Rail
The focus on rail as a solution for moving freight grew out of activism to limit fossil fuels in the Pacific Northwest. Once a heavy rail user, the U.S. transitioned to heavy trucks to move goods around the country.
New Jersey State Policy Lab: An Early 2022 Inflation Update for New Jersey
Because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we should expect substantially more inflation over the next year in the form of energy prices.
Data Visualization with Python Jupyter Notebooks – A Hands-on Introduction
Friday, April 812:30-2:30 p.m. The session will consist of brief presentations, with around 100 minutes of interactive work-along demo of data visualization with Jupyter Notebooks, and end with Q&A. Participants will learn to create data visualizations and can opt...
Interest rate increases are coming – How much more will you pay in NJ?
With inflation continuing to heat up dramatically the Federal Reserve is expected to approve the first of many interest rate increases next week. Rutgers University economist James Hughes said no one is sure whether we’ll see an increase of a quarter percent, a half...
Research: Determining if your Teaching Style is Working, and What to Do if it’s Not
Patti O’Brien-Richardson advises educators and advocates for education to keep a finger on the pulse of what engages students by paying attention to how they respond to discussions, to their peers, and to how they are teaching.
Murphy’s property-tax rebate proposal adds renters
Last week Gov. Murphy announced a property-tax relief program that could benefit renters. Senior policy fellow Marc Pfeiffer explains that the funding is coming from income tax and directly benefits people paying those taxes (segment starts at 6:40) NJ Spotlight News,...
Land value tax helps realize the Richmond 300 vision
Since the 1990s, Richmond’s story largely has been one of success. Spurred and supported by the expansion of the Mid-Atlantic Interstate 95 corridor, the city saw employment increase, population loss reverse and median incomes increase from $24,000 in 1990 to $54,000...
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Report on Food Security and Organic Waste Reduction
This report outlines potential public policies for consideration based on experiences in state and municipal government, the healthcare sector, the nonprofit sector, the agriculture sector, the waste management sector, local school systems, and institutions of higher education.