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New book by Jane Miller seeks to improve math competence, confidence
Innumeracy is not found just among students; it extends to researchers and workers in social sciences and many other fields.
Can anyone lower New Jersey’s property taxes? What the candidates for governor are saying
Murphy’s Republican predecessor, Chris Christie, worked with Democrats in the Legislature a decade ago to put a 2% annual cap on property tax increases, with some exceptions. The effects of that cap have been clear with slower growth under Murphy, said Marc Pfeiffer,...
On the eviction moratorium, the Supreme Court turns the law on its head | Opinion
When the U.S. Supreme Court, on Aug. 26, ruled against President Biden’s extension of the moratorium on evictions, it sacrificed the safety and quite possibly the lives of hundreds of Americans to a legal ideology known as legal positivism or the...
NJ about to subtract one of its tiniest towns in rare merger
The borough of Pine Valley in Camden County has already voted to consolidate into Pine Hill. The disappearing town has 21 residents – barely one for each hole on the main course at Pine Valley Golf Club, one of the top golf courses in the world and the borough’s...
Homecoming 2021: Shawn Tucker applies football, urban planning skills to his career in college athletics
A four-year letterwinner as a wide receiver, Shawn was a double major in geography and labor studies, and after graduation returned to the Bloustein School to earn a Master of City and Regional Planning.
Bike-share programs aren’t profitable but chip away at emissions
But some say money can’t define bike-share programs’ success. Reminder, said Robert Noland, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University: All transportation costs governments money. “So it’s fairly cheap for a city or the state to subsidize...
Assessing Local Public Health Capacity in New Jersey: Challenges and Opportunities, December 1
This half-day virtual convening will provide an overview of project outcomes and an opportunity to discuss implications and next steps with public health leaders.
From Scarlet Knight to Policy Student to Trade Official
Stuart Shapiro and former Scarlet Knight punter Chris Gough MPP ’18 reflect on his time as a policy student and how his work at ITA is making a difference.
Solomon proposes Jersey City ethics reforms to avoid being ‘a punchline because of corruption’
T. Patrick Hill, Ph.D., an associate professor at The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, vocalized support for the changes suggested by Solomon. “Corruption in government, at any level, breeds a corrosive, self-defeating...
Research: Generational wealth matters
Income at life events represents the many ways that generational wealth can drive the contrast in incomes between white and Black households.
Ellen O. White receives Student Aspiration Merit Award
Her presentation, titled “Quantifying highway agency roadside tree removal using high-resolution satellite data,” reviewed large-scale tree removal by state highway agencies along roadsides.
Political partisanship in transportation overshadows strong overall support for reform
Transportation has long been viewed as one of the more reliable areas of agreement in Congress but has now become another front in the partisan wars. Look no further for evidence than the current Senate infrastructure bill, which seems to please few beside those who...