August 24, 2022 | Alumni Spotlight, News
Congrats to Bloustein School Alum Jackie Cornell M.P.A.P ’17, as the new Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund of NJ & Chief Government Relations Officer of the Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central and Southern NJ (PPNCSNJ). In an...
August 24, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
New research published in Health Affairs, co-authored by Prof. Joel C. Cantor, evaluated the March 2020 initiative, formally known as the COVID-19 Temporary Emergency Reciprocity Licensure program. This innovative program allowed more than 30,000 health care workers...
August 23, 2022 | In the News
Every New Jersey county except two (Cape May and Ocean) ended the third quarter of 2021 with fewer childcare workers than before the pandemic. In addition, more than 1,000 licensed home-based daycare providers in the state have closed between 2019 and 2021. In this...
August 22, 2022 | In the News
Gov. Murphy supports a $4.75 billion plan to add more lanes to an 8-mile section of the New Jersey Turnpike. However, Dr. Kelcie Ralph argues that congestion relief does not last because people quickly change their behavior to take advantage of the newly free-flowing...
August 19, 2022 | In the News
Dean Emeritus James W. Hughes breaks down the good and bad of the current economic conditions in the Garden State in this New Jersey 101.5 interview. “It’s still a cauldron of uncertainty, the indicators are not aligned with one another, in looking forward our crystal...
August 18, 2022 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
A new article by Associate Professor Kelcie Ralph, Tara Goddard, Calvin Thigpen, and Raymond Davis expands on their previous work focusing on crash coverage by the media. They found that journalists rely heavily on police press releases. However, the wording in these...
August 9, 2022 | In the News
Bloustein Policy Fellow, and former chair of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University, Linda Stamato argues that the elimination of the state Department of Higher Education and the state Board of Higher Education has led to the current mismanagement of New Jersey...
August 4, 2022 | In the News
Bloustein Adjunct Professor and RUCI Lab Research Computing Specialist Gavin Rozzi Revolutionizes OPRA Requests in New Jersey with a Website called OPRA Machine. “I tried to get basic records — copies of checks and financial records — for investigative pieces. But...
August 3, 2022 | In the News
New affordable housing in Ocean county is attracting a younger crowd. More retirees are electing to stay in their homes rather than move to the 55+ communities that drove up the median age in the southern part of the state. Dean Emeritus James W. Hughes discusses the...
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...
