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One man, two jobs, and a question
Last year, on April 27, Lieutenant Richard G. Covino was paid for working an 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. shift with the Massachusetts Port Authority Fire Department. All in all, an ordinary work day.
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The real ‘Spotlight’: meet team that inspired the Oscar-nominated film
Walter “Robby” Robinson Walter has worked at The Globe for more than three decades and is a Boston local, through and through. He grew up north of the city and went to high school right across the street from the paper’s main offices. He often jokes that his friends use to say he hasn’t gone […]
What’s in a grunt – or a sigh, or a sob? Depends on where you hear it
Hear a laugh, you know someone’s happy. Hear a sob, you know someone is sad. Or are they? It’s been thought that no matter where you live in the world, people express emotions using the same repertoire of sounds. But NPR’s social science correspondent, Shankar Vedantam, reports on new research on how emotions are expressed […]
Those with jobs are more secure even as hopes dwindle for long-term unemployed
Yet another recession-triggered split in the consumer sector is becoming more evident: Higher job security among those with a job versus dwindling hope for the long-run unemployed. The growing gap is recasting the consumer sector and raises questions on how it will support economic growth. Recent reports show workers are feeling fewer job jitters. The […]
No, Rand Paul, There’s No Reason to Cut Unemployment Benefits
Rand Paul says he cares about the unemployed. He says it’s “our moral obligation as a society to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.” That “no one asserts that the problem [of long-term unemployment] is people not wanting to work.” Rather “the problem is not in the minds of the unemployed, but […]
Are Jobless Benefits Leading to Higher Unemployment?
The latest entry in the debate comes from Rand Ghayad, a graduate student atNortheastern University who has already won attention for his work studying the plight of the long-term unemployed. In an earlier paper, Mr. Ghayad and a colleague looked at the well-known relationship between unemployment and job openings. Ordinarily, the two indicators move together, in a predictable pattern: More […]