Highland Park's OQ Coffee Co., owned by Jessica Schellack MCRP '11 and her husband Ben, was recently named Best Coffee in New Jersey by Food and Wine. Food and Wine story, March 23, 2018 NJ.com story, March 30, 2018
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Over 40 percent of Newark students could attend charter schools within five years. Here's how.
A decade ago, less than 10 percent of students in Newark schools attended charters. Today, about 33 percent do. In five years, that number could reach 44 percent. Chalkbeat talks with professor Julia Sass Rubin to find out how this may--or may not--happen....
Op-Ed: Let's Make New Jersey the Healthiest State in the Country
The time for communities, decision makers, and practitioners to evaluate the potential health effects of a plan, policy, or project is before it is adopted, implemented, or built. One way that New Jersey can more systematically integrate the consideration of health...
The 20 smallest towns with their own police departments
The departments may be small, but plenty of them are pricey. In more than half of the state's 20 smallest towns with their own forces, the towns spent at least $1 million to maintain a police department. Some towns have tried to merge their departments to reduce...
Reshaping Roche campus with millennials in mind
Food, fitness and fun. Those are key elements that the millennial generation, which is redefining corporate geography, is seeking in its live, work and play environment, according to James Hughes, professor and former dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning...
The 'typical' American family in N.J. is a myth, and this data proves it
It's all part of a trend that began in the mid-20th Century, said James Hughes, dean emeritus of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. "In 1960, about half of all households were married families with children, the 'Leave it to...
N.J. must stop exodus of residents or suffer tax consequences
Jim Hughes, the dean at Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and co-author Joseph Seneca put it most succinctly in their recent work on New Jersey's postsuburban economy: "New Jersey's core advantage in the late 20th century -...
How this Supreme Court case could impact workers' wages
However, employing right-to-work laws could have a costly impact on women and people of color. A new working paper by Rutgers University professor William Rodgers III found that right-to-work laws hit the earnings of black and Latino workers the hardest because they...
This high-powered group could help combat Trump move to gut your property tax breaks
Michael Lahr, director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service at the Bloustein School; Raphael Caprio, director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center; Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center; Richard Keevey,...
Evaluations Of Medicaid Experiments By States, CMS Are Weak, GAO Says
Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., said the demonstration programs have often shifted from their intended purpose because they are designed by lawmakers pushing an agenda rather than as a...