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Red Bank Waterfront
Read Report The “Waterfront Area” is a half-mile stretch of land from Front Street to the Navesink River. Starting at Maple Avenue in the west, it extends to the Riverview Medical Center in the east. As a focus of this plan, the area was selected for its strategic...
Robots Stole Blue Collar Jobs, Now AI Is Coming for White Collar Workers
Of course, this is not the first time American workers have been impacted or potentially impacted by technology. “There have been technologies that have been implemented that didn’t lead to the wide-scale job losses,” says William M. Rodgers III, professor of public...
Study: 90 percent of properties at Wayne County tax auction went to speculators
Two university professors have studied the Wayne County Tax Auction and come to a startling conclusion: Since 2005, around 90 percent of purchases went to speculative investors. This shift from largely resident-owned properties to bulk owners has had serious...
New Mentorship program launched for policy/planning students
A new mentorship program for Bloustein School graduate students in the urban planning and public policy programs has been launched for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Student perspective: Rutgers' MHA provides practical, professional experiences
by Tamanna Periwal , MHA ’20
The Bloustein School’s master’s in health administration program has served as a platform
Student perspective: Rutgers’ MHA provides practical, professional experiences
by Tamanna Periwal , MHA ’20
The Bloustein School’s master’s in health administration program has served as a platform
Study Shows US Workplace Robots Doubled from 2009 to 2017
The report comes from the Century Foundation research group, which is based in New York City. William M. Rodgers III is a professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He co-wrote...
Health care community says sharing info is critical to speeding up innovation
Translational science, which translates innovation into practice and scale for large populations, also requires a strong role from government, Joel Cantor said. “So that the money flows in the right way and the regulations are in place to facilitate, uptick and...
Stuart Shapiro hosts Facebook Live discussions on impeachment
After almost three years of blogging following the 2016 election, Professor Stuart Shapiro has brought his down-to-earth perspective to a live, in-person and online audience. Following along the
Detroit reviewing link between tax auction, housing instability in response to UM study
The mortgage and tax foreclosure crisis of the past decade has reshaped Detroit’s low-income housing markets. The majority of Detroit households are renters now, and they’re becoming increasingly reliant on corporate landlords. New research by Joshua Akers of the...
‘Unusual’ White House Interest Level in EPA Science Rule Review
Most of those who spoke to Bloomberg Environment during several weeks of reporting for this story agreed that the White House engagement in the process in this case is atypical. “This does seem unusual,” said Tom McGarity, an administrative law professor at the...
NJ may fund Climate Change Resource Center at Rutgers
Jeanne Herb, executive director of the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said the proposed center will provide “ready access to scientifically grounded information, tools and resources to plan...