New Jersey has reduced its energy consumption and cost in the past two years. But behind these achievements and strides in energy efficiency lies a grim reality—the distribution of costs and benefits within the U.S. energy system is disproportionate, thus creating inequities between people of various income levels and geographical residences.
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Many More Single Women Than Men Are Homeowners. Here’s Why
On average, women earn 83 cents for every dollar a man makes — yet single women own roughly 10.7 million homes, compared to 8.1 million for single men, according to a recent analysis from LendingTree that looked at 2021 Census data. That’s a surprising statistic...
NJSPL – Youth Mental Health in NJ: Current Status and Opportunities for Support Service Improvement
The state is currently in the process of implementing a new initiative, the NJ Statewide Student Support Services Network (NJ4S), which is intended to overhaul the existing School Linked Services (SLS) program and aims to provide a wider reach to students and offer more access to social services.
Many NJ customers can’t get help with overdue bills because of reluctant utilities
Customers owe New Jersey’s water and sewer utilities tens of millions in unpaid bills, debts that have thousands of families facing shut-offs. While a Low Income Household Water Assistance program offers up to $5,000 to eligible families to avoid that prospect, only...
A Push for More Oversight of New Jersey’s Colleges
Proposed legislation would enforce financial transparency for public institutions after one university nearly collapsed. Some say the bills are redundant, others that they don’t go far enough. Linda Stamato, former chair of the Board of Governors at Rutgers, the...
Rithikha Rajamohan MCRP ’23 debuts film “Sympoiesis” at the New Jersey Film Festival 1/28/23
MCRP candidate Rithikha Rajamohan created a film for an Experimental Filmmaking course that was chosen to screen at the 41st New Jersey Film Festival. She reflects on the inspiration for the film and how it ties in to her work in Urban Planning.
NJ Downtowns Are Breathing New Life Into Empty Old Banks
Downtown banks used to be where eager home buyers applied for mortgages, workers cashed hard-earned paychecks, and youngsters watched nickels and dimes grow in their first savings accounts. But in recent decades, ATM machines and online banking have made these once...
Call for Submissions: 15th annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference to be held March 10, 2023
The conference is for doctoral students engaged in urban planning and policy-related research across disciplines and universities in the tri-state NJ/NY/PA metropolitan region.
Max Toth MCRP ’23 is recipient of SAE Metro Section Fellowship
In his research, he traced key moments of public policy interventions that led to increased models of electric school buses with onboard bidirectional charging, and pilot programs currently underway with utilities for V2G applications
Research – Rubin, Cantor, Bhuyan et al. Publish Article on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Determinants
A national sample of 1,193 vaccine eligible respondents were surveyed to examine the relationship between knowing that a friend or family member became ill with, or died from, COVID-19 and receiving a vaccine dose within four months of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization.