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September 2007
NPR's Day to Day features Carl Van Horn
Carl Van Horn, Director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development was featured on NPR's "Day to Day" program in a segment titled "'Marketplace' Report: The State of U.S. Workers" Click here for the transcript. Click here to listen.

 

July 2007
Martin Robins takes part in international Urban Summit hosted by Rockefeller Foundation, Brookings Institution
Martin Robins, Senior Fellow with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, was an invited guest of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Brookings Institution at an Urban Summit held in Bellagio, Italy. Robins took part in a session on metropolitan transportation and infrastructure reform in the United States. Click here to learn more.

May 2007
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awards $3 million grant to Heldrich Center
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded a $3 million grant to the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development to honor the lifetime service of John Heldrich. Click here to learn more.

 

February 2007
Local Public Finance Database
The Center for Urban Policy Research, in collaboration with the Center of Government Services, has assembled the first Local Public Finance Database, providing property tax and local spending data for New Jersey's 21 counties, 566 municipalities, and more than 600 school districts. The data can also be viewed for the municipalities comprising the New Jersey Meadowlands, Pinelands, Highlands, and Abbott school district areas.

Click here for Excel Spreadsheet (12 MB)

 

January 2007
Martin Robins on National Public Radio segment about Amtrak
Martin Robins, Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center was included in an NPR report on the future of Amtrak and the Northeast Corridor. David M. Laney, Chairman of the Amtrak Board of Directors, who was a guest speaker here in December, was also featured in the report.
podcast Listen to "Amtrak Urged to Bolster Service in Northeast" on NPR site
podcast Watch David M. Laney's "Amtrak and U.S. Intercity Passenger Rail: Prospecting for a Future"

 

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