BostInnovation Northeastern’s Center for Sport in Society Quietly Plays a Prominent Role in the Sports World Often lost in the fact that Boston is such a great sports city are the things that happen in the undercurrent of the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics and Patriots, the teams that always appear on the under card and the societies that build themselves around them.
International Business Times More Young American Families Poor Than Ever Before: Census More than a third of young American families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data that offers the latest indicator of spreading poverty in America.
Poll: Economic pessimism deepens, and more blame Obama Americans’ pessimism about the economy and its future is deepening, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and they are increasingly willing to hold President Obama responsible for hard times.
A higher profile, by design The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the oldest public arts school in the country, is pursuing a $120 million expansion and redesign of its campus along Huntington Avenue, joining a slew of colleges and museums whose building projects are rapidly redefining Boston as a hub for contemporary art.
FBI: U.S. violent crime down by 6% last year Violent crime dropped 6% in 2010, marking the fourth straight year-to-year decline, while property crime was down for the eighth straight year, falling 2.7%, the FBI reported Monday.
CBS News FBI report: Violent crime in the U.S. dropped 6% in 2010 Here’s some good news: Violent crime dropped 6% in the United States in 2010, the FBI reported Monday, making it the fourth consecutive year that violent crime has declined on a year-to-year basis. Property crime was also down, for the eighth straight year, this time by 2.7%.
2010 Data Show Surge in Poor Young Families More than one in three young families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of census data by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.
A marriage of a dream and a scheme Town Clerk Annette Cappy, whose office issues hundreds of marriage licenses a year, began to notice in 2005 there was something decidedly unromantic about some of the couples seeking the licenses.
As an MSNBC Host, Sharpton Is a Hybrid Like No Other At 50 minutes to airtime, the Rev. Al Sharpton, in pinstripes and cufflinks, was sitting in his office at Rockefeller Center, tinkering with Tuesday’s introduction to “PoliticsNation,” his new nightly show on MSNBC.
The Globe and Mail For U.S. workers, the lost decade of opportunity Life was good for Janine Smith. She had a great job and a nice home in the suburbs.
U.S. News & World Report The Real Impact of Babies on Career Success Jamie Ladge knows that people hate hearing that they can’t “have it all.” As a professor at Northeastern University who studies career success, sheâs discovered that one problem with that phrase is that it usually refers to working in a full-time, inflexible environment while trying to juggle the demands of parenthood. But a newer way […]
Trust Law Anti-Corruption Views – Another call for Congress to hold firm on FCPA Almost a year after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sullied the anti-corruption waters with its misleadingly-titled paper Restoring Balance: Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA), two university law professors opposed to any change in the law have countered with a paper of their own. Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the […]