On August 13, 2013, the Detroit Institute of Arts announced that it is willing to sue in order to avoid any attempt by emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr to sell off pieces of its collection. Everyone knows that decades of financial maleficence, corruption, post-industrial economic forces and racial tension have colluded and forced the city […]

Gallery 360,Northeastern University’s on-campus art gallery, is hosting a collection of typewriters from famous writers, such as Ray Bradbury, John Lennon and Ernest Hemingway. The collection belongs to a Northeastern parent, Steve Soboroff. Soboroff notes, “I love people who are the best at what they do. The idea that geniuses sat there and accomplished what they accomplished […]

It’s important, however, to check specifics. Self-insured college plans — those in which the school pays claims directly, instead of hiring an insurance company to do so — don’t have to meet the law’s essential-benefits requirement, said Sara Collins, a health insurance expert at the Commonwealth Fund. But again, some colleges are meeting them anyway. […]

The senseless killing of Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old senior attending college in Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship, has sent shock waves around the world, especially in the victim’s homeland of Australia. While out for a run on the afternoon of August 16, Lane was shot in the back during an unprovoked attack. It isn’t just the randomness […]

The decline in youth employment is part of a broader shift in working patterns. Americans are entering the workforce later and staying in it longer than at any time in history. Andrew Sum, a Northeastern University economist and expert in youth employment, points to a remarkable statistic: A decade ago, a 16- or 17-year-old boy was twice as […]

Fast-food workers have long struggled to form unions, according to Ed Wertheim, an associate business professor at Northeastern University. Employees cycle in and out of the industry at “tremendously high” rates — greater than 75% turnover each year, he said. “The mind-set among the vast majority of these workers is that they’re not going to be […]