economy

New Jersey's Economic Outlook for 2018 Is So-So, Accountants Say

July 7, 2017

While New Jersey hasn’t had any setbacks to annual job growth since the recession officially ended in 2009, the state has been adding about 45,000 jobs each year, a pace that has lagged both the national recovery and the rate of growth experienced during the 1990s as...

Extensive and Expensive: Coming to Terms with NJ's Fiscal Challenges

June 29, 2017

Taken together, the fiscal policy changes proposed in the report could produce “somewhere in the area of about $5 billion” in annual revenue, said fund trustee Henry Coleman, who is a professor at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy...

Business Leaders Meh About NJ's Prospects But Optimistic for National Economy

June 28, 2017

New Jersey’s top business leaders are optimistic about the direction that the national economy is heading in this year, but as the state gets ready to elect a new governor, they are more cautious about New Jersey’s own immediate economic future. The results of a new...

Only 2 NJ towns don't have any immigrants

June 26, 2017

According to James Hughes, a Rutgers University professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, immigrants made up more than 25 percent of the Garden State’s population at the beginning of the 20th Century. NJ1015.com, June 26, 2017

Latino and Asian immigrants pump nearly $100 billion into NJ economy

June 26, 2017

James Hughes, a Rutgers University professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of planning and public policy, pointed out that “a lot of Asian immigrants were drawn here by the pharmaceutical industry, particularly pharmaceutical research, so they’ve been a presence...

Rutgers study says pipeline will boost economy

June 8, 2017

While a Rutgers University study says improvements to Transco's natural gas pipeline will boost the state's economy, environmentalists say its conclusions are "full of hot air." The study by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy found that the...

Prominent Real Estate Investor, Influenced by Rutgers Regional Report, Results in Successful South Jersey Acquisitions

March 29, 2017

In December 2012, Dr. James W. Hughes, Dean, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, and his colleague, Dr. Joseph J. Seneca, published, Reinventing the New Jersey Economy: New Metropolitan and Regional Employment Dynamics. The...

Bloustein School faculty and staff are major presence at annual New Jersey Planning Conference

March 6, 2017

On January 26-27, the American Planning Association New Jersey chapter and the Bloustein School presented the 2017 New Jersey Planning Conference. As the only planning school in the state, faculty and staff from the Bloustein School have a major presence during the...

Implications of 2016 election, NJ's new state tax policies to be discussed at R/ECON event, Nov. 18

November 15, 2016

The Rutgers Economic Advisory Service’s (R/ECON) semiannual conference and forecast, “Surveying the Post-Election Landscape: What’s Ahead for the National Economy” will be held on Friday, November 18 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon at the Bloustein School's Governor James...

R/ECON: NJ economy finally in gear, state adds almost 56,000 jobs in 2015

May 6, 2016

New Jersey added 55,700 jobs last year – the vast majority in the private sector – and now has recovered 91 percent of the more than a quarter-million jobs lost during the Great Recession of January 2008 to September 2010. “This was the state’s best performance since...