New Jersey State Policy Lab
@njpolicylab.bsky.social
New Jersey Policy Lab conducts rigorous evidence-based research to raise the quality of data used by state policymakers to address the needs of NJ communities.
https://policylab.rutgers.edu/
https://policylab.rutgers.edu/
💡 "We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie #WisdomWednesday #inspiration #quote
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
💡 "We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie #WisdomWednesday #inspiration #quote
🩺⚕️Researchers with #Rutgers #NJ Medical School, in collaboration with the NJSPL, have developed a report which is intended to serve as the first comprehensive state-by-state guide of health insurance literacy educational resources and/or interventions available across the U.S.:
#healthinsurance
#healthinsurance
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🩺⚕️Researchers with #Rutgers #NJ Medical School, in collaboration with the NJSPL, have developed a report which is intended to serve as the first comprehensive state-by-state guide of health insurance literacy educational resources and/or interventions available across the U.S.:
#healthinsurance
#healthinsurance
🌌 "As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #WisdomWednesday #quote #inspiration #BookSky
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🌌 "As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #WisdomWednesday #quote #inspiration #BookSky
💡"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie #WisdomWednesday #inspiration #quotes
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
💡"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie #WisdomWednesday #inspiration #quotes
📚🎓 NJSPL researchers Drew Gitomer and Rachel Garver presented at the New Jersey State House to discuss their recent report examining the policy changes to the edTPA teacher certification process in #NJ.
#education #highered #Rutgers
#education #highered #Rutgers
October 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📚🎓 NJSPL researchers Drew Gitomer and Rachel Garver presented at the New Jersey State House to discuss their recent report examining the policy changes to the edTPA teacher certification process in #NJ.
#education #highered #Rutgers
#education #highered #Rutgers
🎊🎉🥳 Thank you to everyone who made it to our Navigating Policy-Related Careers event last night, and we hope you were able to spend some time chatting with our amazing cohort of former teaching assistants, research assistants, and summer interns:
#Rutgers #academicsky #politics #highered
#Rutgers #academicsky #politics #highered
October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🎊🎉🥳 Thank you to everyone who made it to our Navigating Policy-Related Careers event last night, and we hope you were able to spend some time chatting with our amazing cohort of former teaching assistants, research assistants, and summer interns:
#Rutgers #academicsky #politics #highered
#Rutgers #academicsky #politics #highered
The NJSPL is hosting the Navigating Policy-Focused Career Pathways seminar, featuring an array of our former students and #alumni at @bloustein.rutgers.edu from 5:00-6:30pm. Opening remarks were delivered by Dean @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social with Executive Director Elizabeth Cooner moderating.
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The NJSPL is hosting the Navigating Policy-Focused Career Pathways seminar, featuring an array of our former students and #alumni at @bloustein.rutgers.edu from 5:00-6:30pm. Opening remarks were delivered by Dean @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social with Executive Director Elizabeth Cooner moderating.
"The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted." - 💡 Elizabeth Dole #WisdomWednesday #quotes #inspiration
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted." - 💡 Elizabeth Dole #WisdomWednesday #quotes #inspiration
📣 Happening now 📣 Residential Support Services for Disabled Students in NJ’s Public Institutions of Higher Ed is taking place at the #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu:
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
📣 Happening now 📣 Residential Support Services for Disabled Students in NJ’s Public Institutions of Higher Ed is taking place at the #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu:
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as of August 2024, more than 42,600 New Jerseyans—approximately 0.5% of the population—were being served by 346 Medicare-certified nursing homes: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as of August 2024, more than 42,600 New Jerseyans—approximately 0.5% of the population—were being served by 346 Medicare-certified nursing homes: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
"The Constitution is the origin & measure of legislative study. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go & no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed." - ⚖️ William Patterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey #WednesdayWisdom
October 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"The Constitution is the origin & measure of legislative study. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go & no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed." - ⚖️ William Patterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey #WednesdayWisdom
"We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students." - 🍎 🏫 Thomas Kean, 48th Governor of #NJ #WednesdayWisdom
October 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students." - 🍎 🏫 Thomas Kean, 48th Governor of #NJ #WednesdayWisdom
"Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science." - Christine Todd Whitman, 50th Governor of New Jersey 📝🏛️ #WednesdayWisdom
September 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science." - Christine Todd Whitman, 50th Governor of New Jersey 📝🏛️ #WednesdayWisdom
In #NJ, there are typically over 200,000 traffic crashes per year, but only crashes resulting in fatalities are reported to the national Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database:
policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
#traffic #trafficsafety #AcademicSky #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu
policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
#traffic #trafficsafety #AcademicSky #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In #NJ, there are typically over 200,000 traffic crashes per year, but only crashes resulting in fatalities are reported to the national Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database:
policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
#traffic #trafficsafety #AcademicSky #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu
policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
#traffic #trafficsafety #AcademicSky #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." - James Madison 🗽 #WednesdayWisdom
September 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." - James Madison 🗽 #WednesdayWisdom
"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11." 🗽 - President Barack Obama #NeverForget
September 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11." 🗽 - President Barack Obama #NeverForget
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey." - Charles Edison, 42nd Governor of #NJ #WednesdayWisdom
September 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey." - Charles Edison, 42nd Governor of #NJ #WednesdayWisdom
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose." - Zora Neale Hurston #WednesdayWisdom
#quote #inspo #Rutgers
#quote #inspo #Rutgers
September 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose." - Zora Neale Hurston #WednesdayWisdom
#quote #inspo #Rutgers
#quote #inspo #Rutgers
🍎 📚 In 2022, #NJ removed edTPA, as a statewide requirement for #teacher certification. Under this new policy, each educator preparation program was responsible for designing and/or selecting a performance-based assessment to evaluate their own teacher candidates policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
September 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🍎 📚 In 2022, #NJ removed edTPA, as a statewide requirement for #teacher certification. Under this new policy, each educator preparation program was responsible for designing and/or selecting a performance-based assessment to evaluate their own teacher candidates policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
💌 #Donate today 📣 the #Rutgers New Jersey State Policy Lab Fund supports the development of critical, nonpartisan, evidence-based #policy #research for the Garden State: give.rutgersfoundation.org/nj-state-pol...
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
💌 #Donate today 📣 the #Rutgers New Jersey State Policy Lab Fund supports the development of critical, nonpartisan, evidence-based #policy #research for the Garden State: give.rutgersfoundation.org/nj-state-pol...
"It's difficult to talk about the economy or forecast the economy without acknowledging the current state of uncertainty of the broader landscape." Professor Will Irving spoke at the New Jersey State House discussing the latest economic forecast for #NJ & beyond policylab.rutgers.edu/will-irving-...
August 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"It's difficult to talk about the economy or forecast the economy without acknowledging the current state of uncertainty of the broader landscape." Professor Will Irving spoke at the New Jersey State House discussing the latest economic forecast for #NJ & beyond policylab.rutgers.edu/will-irving-...
It’s an invasive species of bug that’s detrimental to local flora/crops. The state Dept of Agriculture had a statewide campaign three years ago urging all New Jerseyans to kill on sight:
www.nj.gov/agriculture/...
www.nj.gov/agriculture/...
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s an invasive species of bug that’s detrimental to local flora/crops. The state Dept of Agriculture had a statewide campaign three years ago urging all New Jerseyans to kill on sight:
www.nj.gov/agriculture/...
www.nj.gov/agriculture/...
🏠🧓 In #NJ, there are currently less than 25 eligible properties being served by an Assisted Living Program, but #Rutgers researchers have identified more than 300 subsidized #housing properties that could be served by an ALP in the Garden State: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
August 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🏠🧓 In #NJ, there are currently less than 25 eligible properties being served by an Assisted Living Program, but #Rutgers researchers have identified more than 300 subsidized #housing properties that could be served by an ALP in the Garden State: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
🏫 “It takes a village to build a program like this.” 📚 NJSPL Executive Director Elizabeth Cooner, Ed.D. and Dean @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social kicked off the 4th annual Summer Intern Presentations at #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu today.
August 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🏫 “It takes a village to build a program like this.” 📚 NJSPL Executive Director Elizabeth Cooner, Ed.D. and Dean @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social kicked off the 4th annual Summer Intern Presentations at #Rutgers @bloustein.rutgers.edu today.
On Aug. 6th the NJSPL summer #interns will present on their respective policy interests. The students each selected an area of #policy research at the beginning of their internship:
policylab.rutgers.edu/august-6th-n...
policylab.rutgers.edu/august-6th-n...
August 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
On Aug. 6th the NJSPL summer #interns will present on their respective policy interests. The students each selected an area of #policy research at the beginning of their internship:
policylab.rutgers.edu/august-6th-n...
policylab.rutgers.edu/august-6th-n...