CLiME NEWSLETTER
JULY 31, 2020
1. CLiME Statement on Systemic Racism
CLiME joins the national push for transformative change to dismantle systemic racism, a call that follows the coronavirus pandemic and recession and the police killings of several African Americans, including George Floyd.   But what does systemic racism mean? 

2. "Pandemic Remedies" Essay Series
In this first installment of a faculty essay series, CLiME asked Rutgers professors affiliated with the center to provide brief analysis on some of the many institutional crises exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and to offer solutions.

Professor Laura Cohen  takes readers inside juvenile justice to show the increased risk of viral infection incarcerated youth face as well as the steps advocates are taking on their behalf. Read further about early release, a n issue in which New Jersey now leads the country, thanks in large part to Professor Cohen's advocacy.

Professor Rachel Godsil  discuses the loss of public revenues to struggling communities and offers a pipeline to millions.  

Political Scientist Domingo Morel  reveals the growing crisis in public pension fund commitments and a possible path to meeting those obligations.  

CLiME Director David Troutt  looks into the future to interrogate claims that “we are all in this together” and offers an alternative set of policy priorities we would pursue if mutuality really mattered.

3. CLiME is Hiring! Senior Research Fellow

This year, CLiME seeks candidates for a one-year Senior Research Fellow position (possibly renewable) in which an independent professional will assist the director in research projects, author reports and may supervise law student research assistants, in these and other impact areas:

  • Social Determinants of Health: The novel coronavirus pandemic’s disproportionate devastation of African Americans and other communities of color has been mediated through preexisting social determinants of health. We will conduct a structural inequality analysis of the laws and institutional practices that give rise to the social determinants of health, with an emphasis on the Newark region.

  • Affordable Housing: The pandemic will likely create a new housing crisis in Newark and beyond. Exactly how much affordable housing does Newark need? In what forms is it most likely to be produced?

  • Equitable Growth and Public Finance: The Senior Research Fellow will assist in the research needs (qualitative and light quantitative) associated with ongoing collaborative projects in equitable public finance and the Displacement Risk Indicators Matrix, an anti-gentrification tool for policymakers.

  • Structural change through enforcement. This project will examine how policymakers can advance structural change through legal compliance and enforcement with a selection of existing institutional requirements.
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