New Jersey Democrats plan to introduce a referendum to raise the minimum wage to $8.25 an hour after Gov. Christie vetoed the bill to raise it last week. Despite the veto, the minimum wage remained a hot topic among residents across the state, including frightened small business owners. "If you raise the price of anything, less will be taken. This 'law of demand' applies to everything, including labor," Temple economist William Dunkelberg said. "Raising the minimum wage will immediately, and into the future, induce firms to find ways to use less labor."

In his latest Forbes column, Temple Intellectual Heritage instructor Jordan Shapiro, a proponent of the use of gaming and technology in education, described what happened when he brought game-based education entrepreneur Matthew Peterson and Temple education psychologist Avi Kaplan to an independent Philadelphia school to observe children with different learning styles experiment with iPads loaded with Peterson's match education software.

Temple researchers kept tabs on 115 households and found that kids from families who stick to routines were 20 percent less likely to exhibit problem behaviors. The kids were also 32 percent more engaged at school. “A chaotic home life messes with your child’s sense of order, and leads them to believe their actions don’t have predictable consequences,” explains study co-author Mia Budescu, a developmental psychologist at Temple.

To China they are the Diaoyu Islands, sovereign territory of the People's Republic. To Japan, which controls them, they are the Senkakus. Jeff Kingston from Temple University, Japan Campus, says a dispute over the islands has the potential to flare into a conflict. “Nobody thinks it makes any sense at all to fight a war over these islands. Certainly there are a lot of signs that would suggest that may happen and once there's blood in the water that's going to make it very, very difficult to find a compromise,” he said.