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BOSTON – Seagulls fly through the air as trucks drive in and out of the lots around one-story buildings that form a triangle. In the middle, a dumping site creates an unpleasant accent, with garbage strewn about. Welcome to Boston's Newmarket district. Inside these industrial buildings are dozens of
Massachusetts
CAMBRIDGE – While Boston's colleges and universities are thought to provide engines for much of the city's urban and economic development, across the Charles River, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has, of course, backed up assertions of its impact with numbers. In an updated Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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One city was once the wealthiest per capita in the world. The other was nearly the cotton manufacturing capital of the world. But today, New Bedford and Fall River are among the many mid-sized cities in Massachusetts struggling to adapt to the evolving global economy. Both are adjusting at a
Massachusetts
Forty years ago in the U.K., the term "microbrewery" emerged to describe new small-batch operations independent of the large brewers and pub chains that dominated the market. Much as many of these relatively tiny beer, ale and stout producers now do today, the first successful one, Litchborough
Massachusetts
While race relations and the threat of terrorism dominate the national news, Massachusetts voters at the state level are more concerned about jobs, the economy, and the worsening opioid epidemic, according to local polling data reviewed by the NewBostonPost. Sixteen percent of respondents named jobs as the topmost concern, followed
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it foresees an exceedingly slow pace of interest rate hikes — and is in no hurry to resume them. In explaining its decision to keep interest rates unchanged, the Fed expressed concern about a recent slump in U.S. job growth and about
Donald Trump
One of the big themes in the current presidential race is how decades of free trade have dealt a heavy blow to the American worker as millions of jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor.
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BOSTON – The Hub edged out Silicon Valley as America's top location for digital innovation in a ranking of major U.S. metropolitan regions released Thursday, with researchers citing Boston's higher scores for livability and connectedness. "While the San Francisco Bay Area is the clear leader
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