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Atlantic City's Controversial Effort to Eliminate Elected Mayor's Post Gets Donations
In October, former Mayor Frank Gilliam resigned the post after pleading guilty to wire fraud. He allegedly stole $87,000 from a youth basketball program he founded. The effort comes as a study released last month conducted for the state of New Jersey by professors at...
Atlantic City’s Controversial Effort to Eliminate Elected Mayor’s Post Gets Donations
In October, former Mayor Frank Gilliam resigned the post after pleading guilty to wire fraud. He allegedly stole $87,000 from a youth basketball program he founded. The effort comes as a study released last month conducted for the state of New Jersey by professors at...
Interactive map reveals top 10 areas in the US where workers are at risk of being replaced by ROBOTS – amid predictions up to 50 percent will lose their jobs
Outside of the busy city locations, the reported found that the manufacturing industry in the Midwest is being threatened the most by robot workers. William Rodgers, a professor of public policy at Edward J. Bloustein School and chief economist at the Heldrich Center...
Rutgers MHA team wins Graduate Healthcare Management Case Study Challenge
Bloustein MHA students took first place at Seton Hall’s Graduate Healthcare Management Case Study Challenge.
Not everyone is sharing in this booming U.S. economy
Millions of families across the USA now have very difficult financial situations. A report from the Federal Reserve notes that the poorest Americans are literally getting crushed by this weight of rising inequalities. And according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the gap...
Where did the money go? Buyers of lucrative state tax credits remain secret
An official with the National Park Service said the federal credits cannot be sold, but developers often bring on an equity investor who can claim the credits. Julia Sass Rubin, an associate professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey who studies tax incentive...
Here's Where Robots Are Replacing Workers Fastest
“There have been clear losers with increased automation—namely, younger, less-educated manufacturing workers in the Midwest and younger, minority workers in these industries in particular,” says coauthor William Rodgers, a professor of public policy at...
Here’s Where Robots Are Replacing Workers Fastest
“There have been clear losers with increased automation—namely, younger, less-educated manufacturing workers in the Midwest and younger, minority workers in these industries in particular,” says coauthor William Rodgers, a professor of public policy at Edward J....
6 Ways Our Society Is Failing Cyclists With Words Alone
New research has tested and confirmed that this unfair framing of traffic crashes has a significant effect on the public’s perception of whether the cyclist or driver is to blame. While the research focused on pedestrians, the study had all vulnerable road users,...
Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims
A new academic paper by authors Tara Goddard, Kelcie Ralph, Calvin G. Thigpen and Evan Iacobucci says that if reporters could shift away from victim-blaming news coverage, politicians would be forced to truly address the problem of vehicle violence. A team of...
NJ may be vulnerable to the next economic downturn
New Jersey may be vulnerable to the next economic downtown, according to a new report released Tuesday by New Jersey Policy Perspective, just as it was with the Great Recession. Authored by a practicum of Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
2019: 11/12 Planning for climate change: building equity into sustainable urban futures
11/12 Planning for climate change: Building Equity into sustainable urban futures click to play 2019-20 Stuart Meck Memorial Lecture in Land Use Law and Affordable Housing Climate change raises many profound questions about the future of cities. How will cities adapt...