| February Wed, 2024
The Gender Gap in Political Giving
“The persistence of inequality surprises me,” said Kira Sanbonmatsu, a researcher at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and author of a newly released report titled “The Donor Gap: Raising Women’s Political Voices.”
| February Wed, 2024
Women donors are underrepresented in fundraising for state elections
Women donors remain underrepresented in fundraising for state elections across the country, creating a gender gap that can have wide-ranging impacts on women candidates and political representation, a new report from the Center for American Women and Politics found.
| February Wed, 2024
Social media key in hate forecasting, U.S. academic tells antisemitism conference
Just as there are early warning systems for hurricanes and tornadoes, Canadians should pay attention to social media in order to see hate approaching. That’s the view of Joel Finkelstein, chief science officer and co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
| February Wed, 2024
Survey: 71% of NJ Workers Report Access to Paid Leave; Half Aware of Laws by Name
For the most recent research, the Heldrich Center partnered with the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Center for Women and Work and the Eagleton Institute of Politics Center for Public Interest Polling to conduct four statewide surveys of working New Jerseyans in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The research coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.