Andrew Sum, professor of economics at Northeastern University, estimates that in 2012 there are six people looking for a full-time job for every one opening. What will people who have been out of work for over two years do? It may be 10 or 15 years before they can get on the Social Security they […]

Northeastern University economists Barry Bluestone and Alan Clayton-Matthews, who wrote the report, noted the Massachusetts approach has focused on building an “ecosystem” of start-ups that can work with the state’s research universities and teaching hospitals. They said the $300 million spent by the state so far has spurred more than $1 billion in spending by […]

Based on those projections, each dollar in tax incentives awarded under the law will generate $1.66 in added tax revenue, according to the report, written by economists Barry Bluestone and Alan Clayton-Matthews of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University and released at a foundation forum on Tuesday […]

Patrick joined researchers from Northeastern University who presented a report showing that the state has given out $56.6 million in tax credits, and life sciences companies have created 2,537 new jobs in Massachusetts. The news was, in part, a pitch to the private sector for help — encouraging investors to put money into clusters of […]

The number of people 45 and older who have been jobless for more than a year has quadrupled since 2007, accounting for nearly half of the 3.5 million Americans out of work for more than a year, according to the US ­Department of Labor. “Historically, we’ve never seen anything that comes close to this; these […]

“The plan is ambitious,” said Stephanie Pollack, a transportation specialist at the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “And it’s depressing that this is considered ambitious when most of the money is going to fixing what we have now.” But, she said, “this is probably the first time in decades that […]

The NPR story follows Northeastern University speech scientist Rupal Patel as she works to develop an electronic voice to replace the generic ones on Samantha’s iPad, a new voice based on the actual sounds that Samantha produces naturally. The voices that currently exist are actually pretty diverse. If you’re imagining the sound of Stephen Hawking’s […]

Stephanie Pollack, associate director at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said the campaign efforts could be criticized for focusing too heavily on grandiose new projects — expensive investments like the South Coast Rail — rather than the roughly 80 percent of the plan that will go toward bridge and road repair, […]

That could prove a tough sell, since BioGenesis’ actions likely were motivated by profits, not by a specific desire to break the contract, law experts said. Roger Abrams, a sports law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, used the example of player contracts that call for the player to hit specific weight targets in spring […]

Alan Clayton-Matthews, Northeastern professor, said he has witnessed firsthand one of the reasons why, in Santa María Tzejá, a remote village in Guatemala that saw brutal violence during the 36-year civil war. Townsfolk fled to the mountains and refugee camps in Mexico, but then in the 1990s returned to rebuild the town. They also built […]

The FDA has yet to outline its plans, leaving plenty of speculation about whether the agency will regulate different cigars differently — without creating loopholes. “If they can’t figure out a way to keep this thing from being gamed, then they basically shouldn’t make any exemptions,” said Richard A. Daynard, a Northeastern University law professor and […]

We were excited and honored when the administration at Northeastern Universityasked us to help judge its RISE:2013 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo. The event, held at the physical education center on the school’s Boston campus, brings together an incredibly diverse array of research projects covering a impressive number of fields, including physical and life sciences, engineering, […]