jobs

One-fifth of U.S. workers were laid off in past five years, study says

September 25, 2017

One in five U.S. workers was laid off in the past five years and about 22% of those who lost their jobs still haven't found another one, according to a new survey that showed the extent Americans have struggled in the sluggish labor market since the Great Recession...

Poll finds mounting frustration with economy

September 24, 2017

A new Rutgers University economics study paints a bleak picture of the economic recovery, finding that 20 percent of workers lost their job in the last five years. One in five, or 30 million people, have been laid off from a job since June 2009, according to...

Why your college major doesn't always matter

September 23, 2017

Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs famously told President Obama that Apple would have located 200,000 iPhone manufacturing jobs in the United States, rather than China, if he could have found 8,700 qualified industrial engineers in the U.S. This exchange and...

Skills gap: Why can't NJ employers find workers they need?

August 11, 2017

"As a society we are failing a lot of these folks by letting them fend for themselves,” said Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Van Horn was among the experts speaking Tuesday in New Brunswick at a...

Heldrich Center, WorkingNation to co-host town hall, Re-skilling the Mid-Career Workforce, August 8

July 18, 2017

The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and WorkingNation will hold a Town Hall-style meeting, “Re-skilling the Mid-Career Workforce,” at 4 p.m. on August 8 at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Space is...

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...

Recent college grads are leaving NJ in record numbers. Here's why.

June 26, 2017

"It is sort of unprecedented, we would have to go back generations, to come to this situation where grown children live at home to the extent that they are today," said Dr. James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers...

In Search Of Rural Jobs, States Weigh Strategy With Checkered Past

March 30, 2017

Another difference between these programs and other development strategies is that the state does not choose which investment firms may participate based on their investment plans or their track record with similar investments. Instead, the investment firms are...

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...

NJ employers hiring; why are workers unhappy?

March 25, 2016

New Jerseyans have been waiting for a long time. While the U.S. had regained all of the nearly 9 million jobs that it lost in the recession by March 2014, New Jersey's job market muddled along. At times, it seemed like it would gain momentum. But in October 2012,...