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BOSTON – Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a Democrat and a former labor leader, presides over a workforce where a lopsided portion of the jobs are held by whites and the median pay for women is 20 percent less than for men, data released Tuesday show. The demographic breakdown of the municipal
Maine
It's a story that hits so many hot-button issues of the presidential campaign — free trade agreements, energy costs, monetary policy, taxes, income inequality, the loss of middle-class manufacturing jobs to foreign competition and technological change, corporate political influence, and government officials-turned-high-priced-Washington-lobbyists — that you might expect to see it
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BOSTON – Boston and its environs boast world-class universities and a bustling innovation economy. People from all over the world travel to the Hub to study, but after graduating, many highly skilled and well-educated foreigners learn that they can't remain in the U.S. legally. This amounts to a
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Hours after the Massachusetts House of Representatives approved an annual budget bill calling for modest spending increases, federal officials reported Thursday that the U.S. economy nearly stalled last winter, declining from relatively modest growth rates over the past two years. By contrast, a local assessment showed that Bay
Massachusetts
BOSTON – How are jobs created? Finding answers to that question has been an economic and political priority for governments around the world, especially in the years since the Great Recession. Nurturing startups may be a critical component. Studies, such as a white paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
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FALL RIVER – Amazon.com – the world's largest retailer – is just months away from opening a new distribution center in Fall River, pumping at least $50 million into the project and delivering hundreds of new jobs to the beleaguered mill city. "I think it's a wonderful
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — Cities and towns reliant on local aid saw much to celebrate in the $39.5 billion budget proposal released by House leadership on Wednesday, but some groups, including the court system, were less excited by the fiscal restraint shown in the spending plan for next year. The budget,
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Both the private and public sectors in the Bay State are stepping up support of entrepreneurs through the University of Massachusetts-Boston. The Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence program at the school announced Thursday that it had added a second private-sector backer, Goodwin Procter, the Boston-based a law firm. Goodwin Procter'
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