For most public employees, New Jersey’s State Health Benefits Plan is some of the best health coverage in the country. But for those looking to commit insurance fraud in the program, which costs taxpayers more than $2.5 billion annually, it is something else.
It’s an easy target.
“It smells of cheese for rats,” Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, said of the plan.
Small Wins, Big Impact: On the Front Lines of Local Public Health with Peter Tabbot In this episode of EJB Talks, Peter Tabbot ’91 MPH ‘97, CPM, longtime local health officer in Rockaway, NJ and a Bloustein School public health lecturer, shares his path into public...
Nicholas V. Longo is leading a university-wide effort on how to expand engagement in civic life Nicholas V. Longo, the inaugural director of the Rutgers Democracy Lab, insists democracy is something you learn by doing – not just in a classroom or at the ballot box,...
The 𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐑𝐀𝐃) 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 recently hosted its inaugural Research Symposium on 3/24/26 - an amazing event that has sparked much interest in collaborative research with AI as a matchmaking catalyst....
Bridging Western and Indigenous epistemologies in an opaque world Food security and food sovereignty as climate adaptation Abstract Food security and food sovereignty represent two similar but distinct pathways for community-led climate adaptation. This study examines...
In response to an invitation from the Douglass Residential College and the Institute for Women's Leadership to host programs focused on women's issues at Rutgers University in honor of Women's History Month, the New Jersey State Policy Lab convened a panel of recent...