August 3, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Fusion voting was common in the 1800s, but largely disappeared with the rise of the two-party system in the 1900s. It was also referred to as cross-endorsement or open-ballot voting. With fusion voting, third parties like the Green Party line, or the Conservative...
July 30, 2022 | In the News
The jobless rate is at a record low of 3.6%, but consumer prices are up 9.1% as of June 2022. Are we officially in a recession? That depends on who you ask. “It suggests, overall, the economy is weakening, it’s certainly losing steam, where there are storm clouds not...
July 29, 2022 | In the News
Bloustein Professor and Local Govt. Research Center Assistant Director Marc Pfeiffer weighs in on the nearly two year backlog at https://nj.gov/grc/. “The law was written with an appreciation for the technology at the time, for the procedures at the time,” Pfeiffer...
July 29, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new article by Assistant Professor Jermaine Toney, “Is there wealth stability across generations in the U.S.? Evidence from panel study, 1984–2017” (Contemporary Economic Policy, July 2022), found that a substantial portion of grandparents with the...
July 26, 2022 | In the News, News
Voorhees Transportation Center staff Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Sean Meehan, and Hannah Younes led a Spring 2022 studio to encourage micromobility use in Asbury Park, NJ by improving user safety and comfort. Smart Cities Dive featured the pop-up bike lane project, its...
July 22, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Bloustein PhD candidate Adam Scavette analyzes cost of living differences across the United States in his latest publication “Making Ends Meet. How does the local cost of living affect a household’s standard of living?” published in Regional Spotlight,...
July 7, 2022 | In the News
Recent PhD grad Or Caspi examines how the integration of e-bikes influenced Indego’s usage in disadvantaged areas. In these regions, the users use shared e-bikes for commute, leisure, and other utilitarian purposes, while in the rest of the city, users use e-bikes...
July 4, 2022 | In the News
The National Safety Council (NSC) set up a Mobility Safety Advisory Group (MSAG) of non-NSC people from the private sector, government, non-profit organizations and academia which will advise the NSC Roadway Safety Practice on tactics and strategies that can best...
