October 30, 2025 | News, Public Policy Practicums, Student Projects
Addressing Cell Phone Use in Schools: A National Landscape of Policies and Practices Dash Barany, Claudia Cruz, Matthew Duca, Matthew Filosa, Naeemah Jones, Margaret Riley, and Genesis Vasquez-Peralta Faculty Advisor: Dr. Carl Van Horn Read Report The purpose of this...
October 29, 2025 | In the News
The vast majority of campaign contributions in the New Jersey governor’s race are coming from a small slice of the Garden State as U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli zigzag the state less than a week ahead of the election… Sherrill has had a...
October 29, 2025 | News
Rimshah is completing a Master of Public Informatics at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy. Rimshah’s work focuses on the intersection of AI, data, and public good. She recently presented her paper “MOMCare with AI: A Dual Embedding-based RAG-LLM...
October 29, 2025 | In the News
TRENTON – Exactly one year before she was forced to resign, Tiffany Williams Brewer saw the 55-year-old New Jersey State Commission of Investigation as a house that was due for a makeover. In a plan she labeled “SCI 2.0,” she said the house needed a new exterior, with...
October 27, 2025 | News
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently held an award ceremony honoring accessibility innovators that are at he forefront of developing cutting-edge technology and creative solutions that enhance customer accessibility. from pioneering mobile applications...
October 21, 2025 | In the News
When it comes to Texas highways, if you build it, they will keep coming. That fits well with the state’s objective to continue its ever-upward economic path. Even in the face of economic uncertainties and efforts to improve program efficiencies in several governmental...
October 20, 2025 | News, Public Policy Practicums, Student Projects
Building Capacity to Support New Jersey Autism Professionals: A Workforce Study and Multi-state Comparative Landscape of Policies and Practices Daniel Rosario, Josephine O’Grady, Lily McFarland, Peter Walter, Ryne Kremer, Sean Nguyen, and Wun-cian Lin for Autism New...
October 20, 2025 | In the News
Whoever becomes New Jersey’s governor next year will oversee a state business climate fraught with high taxes, rising unemployment, lagging gross domestic product and the fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have triggered a sluggish job market and the...
October 20, 2025 | News
Dr. Melinda Rushing recently appeared on the podcast Zora Talks. In this podcast, Dr. Rushing breaks down what sickle cell really is, why it disproportionately affects people of color, and how her team is developing a new approach called Clinically Guided AI to...
October 16, 2025 | In the News
Surging electricity prices have risen to the forefront of the New Jersey governor’s race — and could be a key issue in the 2026 midterms. Nationwide, power prices have risen 6.2 percent over the past year, more than doubling the 2.9 percent inflation rate overall. In...
October 15, 2025 | News
The Increasing Enrollment of Paid Family Leave for Parents in the U.S. Over the past 10 years, many U.S. states have implemented mandatory paid family leave policies to help address the lack of such policy on the national level. In this post, we examine how paid...
October 13, 2025 | Alumni Spotlight, News
Bloustein Alumnus Ian Lefcourte Receives Prestigious Barbara Grace Award from the Washington State Chapter of the American Planning Association Ian Lefcourte, AICP, a 2014 graduate of the Bloustein School’s Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) program, has been...
October 9, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Report Release – The Role of Quality Ratings in Long-Term Care: Evidence from New Jersey Read Report The United States, with its growing elderly population, is experiencing a significant demographic shift. This trend is evident in New Jersey, which faces rapid...
October 8, 2025 | In the News
The viral claim that BlackRock is buying up all the houses isn’t accurate—but it’s rooted in real issues. Rising rents, limited housing supply, and Wall Street’s growing footprint in the real estate market have fueled confusion about who’s responsible. Professor Eric...
October 6, 2025 | In the News
After years of recession fears, it appears New Jersey may finally be experiencing an economic slowdown. The Garden State is in a recession, according to Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi. New Jersey and 21 other states, plus Washington, D.C., are...
October 3, 2025 | News
Garin Bulger, a Bloustein School PhD student, CUPR Senior Research Specialist, and lecturer, took his undergraduate Sustainable Food and Energy Policy students out to Ironbound Farm in Asbury, NJ, to see firsthand how a real sustainable farm operates in order to put...
October 1, 2025 | In the News
By Marc Pfeiffer (Published October 1, 2025 at ICMA.org) Technology is rapidly changing how local governments communicate with the public. Here’s what’s happening. Every community depends on clear, effective communication between local government and its residents....
September 29, 2025 | In the News
The higher price tag for coveted H-1B visas might drive up employers’ costs, but not necessarily their appetite for US workers. That’s one possible result of the Trump administration’s recent decision to raise the cost of these special visas, meant for skilled workers...
September 28, 2025 | In the News
Divorce in later life – or grey divorce – is on the rise in New Zealand. Divorces among people over 50 sits just shy of 40 percent at last count, up 7 percent in the last decade. This echoes the upwards trending rates around the globe. Most commonly, they...
September 26, 2025 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Reflections on Energy Efficiency Policies in Sustainable Transition: Bedrock, Gamechanger, or More of the Same? Abstract In this study, we analyze how energy efficiency actions, policies, and outcomes are tied to wider socio-economic and political contexts that are...
