February 27, 2025 | In the News
How to Cope With ‘Gray Divorce’: 5 Steps to Help You Write Your Next Chapter With divorce among women over 50 on the rise, we asked experts how to move forward Breakups are always difficult, but when it comes to ending a relationship later in life, it can feel like...
February 27, 2025 | News
By Ayse Akincigil and Uri Amir Koren Affordable housing for older adults with low income is subsidized by various public entities at the federal, state, and local levels. These buildings are managed by municipal or local housing authorities. In New Jersey, there are...
February 25, 2025 | In the News
Interstate 45 is getting a $13-billion makeover in Houston. The project aims to reduce congestion by adding new lanes—a common story for the many highway expansions that are constantly happening across the U.S. In nearby Austin, Tex., I-35 is being widened as part of...
February 25, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Exploring the drivers of adolescent sexual and reproductive healthcare-seeking behavior in northwestern Botswana: a cross-sectional analysis Background Research examining young people’s healthcare-seeking behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa has largely focused on...
February 24, 2025 | In the News
JPMorganChase is letting go of 121 employees at its Jersey City offices, public filings show, as the banking and finance sector looks to trim headcount amid new technology. The layoffs are expected to go into effect in May, according to a WARN notice with the New...
February 21, 2025 | In the News
As part of continued efforts to grow New Jersey’s home- and community-based services workforce, the Department of Human Services has partnered with the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University to offer scholarships to individuals...
February 20, 2025 | In the News
A federal income tax limit of $10,000 on deductions for state and local property taxes — of particular interest to New Jersey residents with high tax bills — will expire at year’s end, leaving the White House and members of Congress gauging what to do next. Some...
February 19, 2025 | In the News
As uncertainty shrouds the identity of the formal chief of the Department of Government Efficiency, Semafor is told the position remains vacant. DOGE was created as a rebrand of the United States Digital Service at the start of the Trump administration, and the...
February 19, 2025 | News
Sharifa Z. Williams is an Assistant Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey The following article was published by the Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association on February 3,...
February 18, 2025 | News
Rutgers Today, February 18, 2025 Rutgers policy expert Marc Pfeiffer discusses the decline of print, the rise of digital media, and what it means for New Jersey communities. With The Star-Ledger ending its print edition and The Jersey Journal shutting down, New...
February 18, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
What substance use services are advertised by local governments? An analysis of data from county websites in New York state Objective To assess the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and response activities that county governments in New York advertise. Study...
February 17, 2025 | News
Frank J. Popper is Professor Emeritus in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, where he also participated in the American Studies, Geography, and Political Science Departments and the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He...
February 17, 2025 | In the News
It was Oct. 1, 2018, and Phil Murphy, the new governor of New Jersey, laid out what he called a path toward an “innovation economy” that was “stronger and fairer” for the state, its businesses and its residents. At a crowded, two-story auditorium on the ON3 campus,...
February 14, 2025 | News
Did you know that between the 1930s and 1970s, the West Side of Asbury Park, NJ, was a vibrant hub of African American life and culture? The community, shaped by Black and African American, Italian, Jewish, and Latino residents and business owners, created famous...
February 12, 2025 | In the News
Linda McMahon, the nominee for U.S. education secretary, holds dozens of municipal bonds that are funding construction and other projects at school districts and public colleges and universities across the country, her ethics disclosure forms show. Based on her...
February 10, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Generative Artificial Intelligence Use in Healthcare: Opportunities for Clinical Excellence and Administrative Efficiency Abstract Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has transformative potential in healthcare to enhance patient care, personalize treatment...
February 10, 2025 | In the News
On a recent cold morning at Ocean County College’s Toms River campus, students walked to class and checked their phones. The campus bustled and its many parking lots brimmed with cars. Yet, this college and ones like it across the nation are bracing for a future...
February 9, 2025 | In the News
The district sold the two buildings for $1.8 million combined–so legal fees in trying to get the buildings back have now dwarfed what the district received from their sale. TAPinto Newark has been keeping an ongoing tab of the legal fees that the public entities...
February 7, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
By Angie Nga Le, Stuart Shapiro, and Elizabeth Cooner New Jersey’s state higher education plan, “Where Opportunity Meets Innovation – A Student-Centered Vision for New Jersey Higher Education” (the Plan), was introduced in 2019. It envisions an ecosystem where every...
February 4, 2025 | In the News
This is a somber weekend for journalism in New Jersey, as the print edition of The Star-Ledger comes off the press for its final run today after 193 years under one banner or another. It occurs one day after the final edition of the Jersey Journal, which will shutter...
