Manufacturing companies in Massachusetts pay an average of $27,000 per year for unskilled, entry-level workers and $52,000 per year for skilled production workers, according to Northeastern University Professor Barry Bluestone, who serves on the collaborative’s board.

In May, Time magazine ran a cover story on “The Me Me Me Generation,” the social media loving, status-sharing millennials that writer Joel Stein described as “entitled narcissists.” Yet despite the entitlement he finds so irritating, Stein acknowledges millennials also have the potential to be our saviors. He just might have that part correct, but […]

Student loan debt is increasingly the front-and-center concern in the lives of young Americans. As college graduates are looking to take the next step in beginning their career, many are saddled with large amounts of debt. Although there are plans to help new graduates pay student loans, many have grown wary of borrowing money for […]

Can you put a price tag on your health? Around the world, people are being denied life-saving medicines simply because they can’t afford the cost of medicine. But there is a growing movement to resist the power of the big pharmaceutical companies that currently control the global medicine market through monopolies and patents.You might have […]

Northeastern University assistant professor David Kimbro, a wild oyster ecology expert formerly with Florida State’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory, called Alligator Harbor a “marginal habitat” for oysters. Because of its lack of direct freshwater sources and reduced flows into the bay, salinity has steadily increased in the last five years. “There aren’t many things as […]

“The demand for family housing in Boston’s core neighborhoods is growing and it will continue to grow,” said Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “But the supply of that housing is almost impossible to augment at prices that these families can afford.”  

Walter Robinson, director of the First Amendment Center at Northeastern University, hailed the ruling. “What a delight to know that Judge Stearns recognized this for what it was: an outrageous attempt to intimidate a newspaper whose sole intent was to inform the public,” Robinson said.

If you’re looking for the future of journalism, the New Haven Independent is a good place to start. That is the finding of media observer Dan Kennedy, whose new book “The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age” was recently published by University of Massachusetts Press. “I had originally intended on […]

Employers never mention polynomial factoring. But what about the higher level math required by the Common Core? Consider algebra II, the study of logarithms, polynomial functions and quadratic equations. Many states want to make algebra II a requirement for graduating high school. Yet, a stunning finding produced by Northeastern University sociologist Michael Handel (cited in a […]

“A researcher who goes to the bottom of the ocean or the edge of a volcano to find organisms that can withstand extreme temperatures and conditions, if that researcher then tries to simply patent the genome, that’s probably not going to be patentable after today,” said Michael Bennet, a professor at Northeastern University School of […]

Instead, NSA is most likely fleshing out the social circles of suspects identified by other means. “If you have the data on everyone, then when you have reason to believe that Mr. X is someone of interest, you can go back and look at his behaviors,” says David Lazer, a political scientist at Northeastern University […]

Although once considered unconventional, returning to school as an adult is now en vogue, having become the fastest-growing demographic in colleges across the United States. From 2000 to 2010, the National Center for Education Statistics reported a staggering 42 percent increase in college students age 25 and older, compared to the 34 percent increase in […]