Massachusetts employers added more than 16,000 jobs in January, the strongest pace of hiring in years and a bright note in an otherwise tepid recovery. The state’s unemployment rate held … read more »
3-D pen garners $2m on crowd-funding site
Somerville toy creators Peter Dilworth and Max Bogue struck Internet gold just two days after they posted a project on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pay for their latest invention: … read more »
Boston humming as appeal of life in city booms
Even though Boston added more units of housing in the last decade than in the three previous decades combined, the pace of new development is not keeping up with all … read more »
BC celebrates its decline in applications
Harvard is up. MIT is up. Northeastern is up. UMass Amherst is up. Boston University is up. But at Boston College, the number of applications received for its incoming freshman … read more »
Advocates argue for more diverse state parole board
Two civil rights advocates argued Wednesday against the reappointment of state parole board member Lucy Soto-Abbe, saying she is wrong for the panel because of her background as a longtime … read more »
Fixing Black History Month
So instead of constant odes to the past, I want to see people like Marquis Landon Cabrera lauded during Black History Month. Just a few decades ago, the 24-year-old Cabrera … read more »
Teen employment falls to 45-year low
“Kids haven’t gotten anywhere in the economy’s recovery,” said Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum, who compiled the data for the report. “Adults and older kids are filling those jobs. When … read more »
High school students march for jobs
Even with that funding, the coalition says employment of high-school age youth has fallen dramatically, citing a 2012 report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies that put teen … read more »
A data gap on Mass. doctors’ troubles
The Globe, in partnership with Northeastern University Initiative for Investigative Reporting, last year reported that Massachusetts was the first state to make doctor profiles public on its website, starting in … read more »
More women now breadwinners for families
More educated men, on the other hand, tend to marry educated women, and these couples’ earnings took less of a beating during the downturn, further widening gap between the highest … read more »
Police chief son arrested in N.H.
But Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said that while the decision to drive Davis home may appear worse in light of the arrest, it may well have failed … read more »
Should Mass. raise taxes?
Since 1998, the Commonwealth has reduced personal and corporate income tax rates, costing the state $2.5 billion a year — leaving little to pay current bills or deal with $80 … read more »