Job growth picks up in Mass. The Massachusetts unemployment rate slipped below the nation’s for the first time since November as employers added nearly 4,000 jobs last month, the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday. Unemployment in February fell to 6.5 percent from 6.8 percent in January, the state reported. Nationally, the rate rose slightly last month, […]
Mass. economy slows as US growth picks up Massachusetts’ economic growth slowed significantly over the summer while the national economy showed a modest pickup, according to two reports released Friday. Clayton-Matthews, who compiled the data for the UMass report, said he expects economic growth in the state to pick up modestly over the next two quarters to an annual rate of 2.3 percent, […]