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BOSTON – The first-ever comprehensive plan to help people start and grow smaller businesses in Boston was announced Wednesday by Mayor Marty Walsh. With 40,000 small companies in the city, the small business plan will act as a guide to support services and resources for entrepreneurs as they get established.
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BOSTON – One more day in Boston, one more coffee shop. National roaster La Colombe opened its first Boston café Thursday near South Station. It's one more shop in a city with a coffee obsession that dates back to the colonial era. One might think that another coffee shop
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(CNSNews.com) – In his weekly address released Saturday, President Barack Obama explained a new federal regulation finalized this week by the Department of Labor that will required employers to pay overtime to salaried workers who make less than $47,500 per year. The federal-regulation-mandated overtime will kick in once the
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Small business owners, many of whom are currently adapting to recent state and local increases to the minimum wage and facing the prospect of even more dramatic mandatory wage increases in the future, may this summer be hit even harder with yet another government wage mandate. A proposed revision to
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The verdant pastures of Gibbet Hill in Groton were first settled in 1645. The lush countryside remained virtually untouched for over three centuries. But in 2000, the land narrowly escaped being turned into an unsightly housing development. To avoid the calamity, local investors and conservationists joined forces in a novel
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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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