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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
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In cities across America, the middle class is hollowing out. A widening wealth gap is moving more households into either higher- or lower-income groups in major metro areas, with fewer remaining in the middle, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
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In many parts of the Northeast and Midwest, population growth is slowing at an unprecedented rate as people are getting older, women are having fewer children, and more people are moving out than in — and that signals big economic trouble ahead. New population projections out this month add to a
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 – Greater Boston ranks higher than any other major urban area in the Northeast for job creation, although it is less competitive nationwide, according to a recent Gallup survey. The region beat out cities from New York to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Buffalo, New York, although it ranks 21st out of
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(CNSNews.com) — For February, the national unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, but for whites alone it was 4.3 percent and for Blacks it was 8.8 percent, more than double the rate of whites, according to the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Asians
Massachusetts
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A funny thing happens every January or February. During most of the year, journalists and politicians trumpet relatively small gains in employment or drops in the unemployment rate. Gov. Gina Raimondo repeatedly proclaims, for example, that Rhode Island's unemployment rate dropped faster over the year
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing is shrinking, corporate profits are declining and goods are piling up on warehouse shelves. Those trends have elevated concern that a U.S. recession may loom in the next year or two. Yet in the one area that matters most, the economy has continued to
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