New Jersey experienced one of the greatest suburban office building booms in history during the 1980s. Our globally recognized core economic specialization was automobile-dependent suburban office campuses, the nation’s cutting-edge growth model at the time. But,...
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Great Recession
Bloustein School, Cushman and Wakefield to host “Future of N.J.’s Suburban Office Campuses,” June 18
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. and the Bloustein School will host “The Future of New Jersey’s Suburban Office Campuses,” a program for regional investors and developers, on Tuesday, June 18. The program will focus on opportunities to create interactive,...
Rutgers’ Heldrich Center for Workforce Development wins national policy impact award
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) has presented its 2013 National Policy Impact Award to the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, for its groundbreaking Work Trends survey series exploring the devastating...
Behind N.J.’s jobless rate: A Q&A with Rutgers economist Joseph Seneca
By Jim Namiotka/The Star-Ledger on May 15, 2013 The latest unemployment numbers are due out this week. Throughout the recovery from the Great Recession, New Jersey’s unemployment rate has remained steadily higher than the national unemployment rate, as well as our...
Op-ed: Education critical to solving economic, employment issues
Opinion: N.J.’s economic growth must focus on better relationship between education, labor market This excerpt is from the Times of Trenton Guest Opinion column on Friday, May 10. Written by Thomas Little, a graduate student in the Master’s in Public Policy program at...
New Rutgers report examines nation’s slow private sector employment recovery
A new Rutgers Regional Report, “Inching Our Way Back: The Nation’s Tepid Employment Recovery,” authored by James W. Hughes, dean of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and Joseph J. Seneca, university professor and economist...
2013 R/ECON Spring Conference to be held April 19; LaRossa, Strauss-Wieder to be guest speakers
The Bloustein School will hold the 2013 Rutgers Economic Advisory Service(R/ECON™) Spring Conference, “Superstorm Sandy: Unanticipated Realities and Post-Surge Responses,” on Friday, April 19, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the Special Events Forum, 33...
The Heldrich Conversations Series presents Carl Van Horn, Herb Schaffner for discussion of Working Scared, April 3
For over 15 years, the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development has been documenting the views, opinions, and experiences of workers and employers through the Center’s critically acclaimed Work Trends survey series. To date, over 25,000 Americans from across the...
Rutgers Regional Report: New Jersey economy will suffer significant, long-term damage without Hurricane Sandy restoration funding
A new Rutgers Regional Report, “The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey,” authored by Rutgers University economist Nancy Mantell, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON); Joseph J. Seneca, university professor and economist...
New Report Examines Current Employment, Business Dynamics Shaping New Jersey’s Suburban Office Market
A new Rutgers Regional Report, “Reinventing the New Jersey Economy: New Metropolitan and Regional Employment Dynamics,” authored by James W. Hughes, dean of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and Joseph J. Seneca, university...
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