Job Trends The back-to-school season is easy to recognize. Temperatures get a bit cooler. Walgreens and CVS start doing a brisk business in pencil and notebook sales. And in college towns like Boston, as I can personally attest, commute times suddenly double. Another familiar feature of the season, of course, is news columns on education trends — […]
WNPR Bay Watch: What Connecticut Can Learn From Massachusetts’s Job Growth Labor pains and lessons from the north. As Connecticut comes to terms with recent job loss, Massachusetts emerges as a regional leader in statewide job recovery. This hour, we explore the latest job market trends and find out what Connecticut stands to learn from the Bay State. Are you a Connecticut or Massachusetts resident? What […]
Boston Herald Experts: Despite loss of 4,500 jobs, Massachusetts outlook good Massachusetts lost 4,500 jobs in January after the state last year saw the largest increase in jobs since 2000, but experts and state officials said last month’s losses are not a predictor of the entire year. “I don’t think that reflects any indication that the economy is slowing at all,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist […]
Vox Trump’s budget makes it official: He’s doing little to nothing about the opioid epidemic More broadly, Trump has done nothing to address the structural issues behind drug addiction — the poverty, joblessness, deteriorating communities, and other common contributors to despair that lead to drug addiction. “If you look at overall public health trends, there are a lot of things like alcohol use and suicide that have increased in concert […]
New England Public Radio Facing Change: As New England Ages, Immigrants Make Up A Growing Share Of Health Workers Adding all of this together reveals some unsustainable labor trends. Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University who’s run some of the jobs numbers, predicts that in Massachusetts, “we’re going to need about 93,000 additional home care workers over the next 10 years, or almost 10,000 a year.”
Forbes One size does not fit all: Educational pathways outside of the four-year degree Elevating the educational attainment of the population—often referred to as “college for all”—has become one of the dominant policy goals of our time. However, dynamics are changing as the trends of soaring college costs and flattening enrollment rates have collided with the talent demands of a robust global job market, which today features unemployment rates […]
Northeastern University students make successfully stylish statements Located in the heart of Boston, Northeastern University has a lot to offer. One program that takes my school to the next level, however, is the co-op program. To put it simply, when a student is on co-op, they are working during the semester instead of taking classes. It’s like a preview of the real […]
U.S. News & World Report Why Immigration Reform Is a Big Senior Issue Worker shortages loom. “Our real problem is going to be finding enough people to fill the jobs we have, and not the other way around,” says Barry Bluestone, a labor expert at Northeastern University in Boston who heads the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. Bluestone has researched the future employment landscape for seniors, and […]