Freights & Ports Students Visit Raritan Center Freight Village

Freights & Ports Students Visit Raritan Center Freight Village

Anne Strauss-Weider’s Freights and Ports graduate class visited the Raritan Center industrial park this semester. The students received a briefing and were able to ask questions about the development and operation of the park.  They also were provided with a...

The Race to Decarbonize America Needs More Workers

THE UNITED STATES doesn’t lack the technology to head off climate catastrophe—it lacks enough trained workers to install it fast enough.  The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last summer, allocates $370 billion toward energy security and climate action....

Prisoners of Their Own Device

HOWEVER ESSENTIAL TO THE CRAFT OF LEGISLATION, projecting policy outcomes is a notoriously fraught human enterprise. As the authors of a leading graduate-school textbook on the subject bluntly assert, “even veteran policy analysts do not do it very well” and many...

Six Ways Existing Economic Models Are Killing the Economy

Americans have been hammered for decades with an economic message that amounts to this: When wealthy people like me gain even more wealth through tax cuts, deregulation, and policies that keep wages low, that leads to economic growth and benefits for everyone else in...

Can NJ Fix Its Messy School Funding Formula?

It’s a complicated situation. New Jersey’s school funding formula, which is supposed to equally provide all students with the chance to get a good education, is constantly being tweaked because some school districts wind up getting more or less than they need based on...