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Apply Now: Summer '25 Digital Content Creator Internship

Applications are now open for the Center for Youth Political Participation's Summer 2025 Digital Content Creator Internship. Digital content creators are responsible for creating original social media content to support the Rutgers Democracy Lab. This opportunity is available to current Rutgers students from any field of study. Apply by Wednesday, May 14 at 5:00PM.

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Apply Now: Ruth B. Mandel Dissertation Research Awards

The deadline to apply for the 2025 Ruth B. Mandel Dissertation Research Awards is May 15, 2025. Established in honor of CAWP co-founder and former longtime director of Eagleton, Ruth B. Mandel, and made possible thanks to the generosity of Ruth's family, the awards support dissertation research on women, gender, and U.S. politics. Advanced doctoral students at U.S.-based institutions who have defended their dissertation proposal are eligible.

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Accepting Applications: RDL's Think & Do Tank - Due May 23

Do you have an idea to help improve democracy? Are you interested in solving problems our democracy is currently facing? Let RDL help fund your idea to make it reality. Learn more about how you can get involved and make a difference.

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News & Announcements

Eagleton E-Newsletter: May 8, 2025

New Rutgers-Eagleton Polling Data, CAWP Releases Full Post-Election Report for 2024, and More

Poll Finds Majority of New Jerseyans Give Negative Ratings to State and National Economy

Rutgers Today

Those surveyed say public schools, social services have the biggest influence on the taxes they pay

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (May 1, 2025) – New Jerseyans give subpar ratings to both the state and national economy, though they are more positive about New Jersey than the nation, as a whole, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll in partnership with New Jersey Organization for a Better State political action committee.

New Jerseyans surveyed in a poll earlier this month are generally negative about the U.S. economy: 41% describe it as “poor,” 39% say “only fair” (up 11 percentage points since November 2024) and 18% “good” (down 9 points); less than 1% say the national economy is doing “excellent.”

Trumpmania: How the world of professional wrestling influenced the presidency

The 19th

In naming [Linda McMahon] to his Cabinet, Trump “chose somebody who was willing to work herself out of a job. He had to find somebody that was willing to go and sit at a confirmation hearing and try to explain how she wanted to be the secretary of education, but also effectively get rid of the Department of Education, which is an incredibly hard position to be put in,” Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said.

New Jersey Democrats brace for nail-biter with governor’s primary

The Hill

But her lead in the Eagleton poll was within the margin of error and her leads in other surveys have consistently been in the single digits. With the percentage of undecided voters often being as high as the percentage of Sherrill’s support and predicting turnout in an off-year primary being difficult, [Ashley] Koning, director of Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, warned that the state of the race may be different than it appears.

“Just because she’s having consistent but small leads doesn’t mean in reality she’s having a consistent but small lead,” Koning said. “That kind of misinterpretation would be very reminiscent of what we saw with [Hillary] Clinton back in 2016.”

“I don’t like to pigeonhole fellows only in science and tech work,” he says. “As scientists, they take a hard problem and break it down into small parts—and this is a helpful foundation for any policy proposal.”