Beth Myers, an employment lawyer with Boston-based Rodgers, Powers & Schwartz LLP, has accomplished what many young lawyers have found to be a nearly impossible accomplishment in this job market: she secured a full-time job in her chosen practice area. These days, so much is written about how dismal the legal job market is, but […]

Massachusetts added nearly 40,000 jobs in 2011, four times the revised employment estimates reported earlier this year by federal officials, according to an analysis of newly released data by the University of Massachusetts. The new data, a census of Massachusetts employers compiled by the US Labor Department, offers the most complete and reliable snapshot of […]

My name is Anastasia Taylor and I am a student at Northeastern University studying International Affairs and Human Services with a specialization in Social Entrepreneurship. On August 18th I will be traveling to Cuzco, Peru to teach English and work in an orphanage for 4 months. I will be placed at an impoverished school and […]

Academics face great expectations but nothing compares to the pressure we put on ourselves, says Denise Horn At University of Venus, we talk a great deal about work/life balance – how to maintain the balance between family, private life and the demands of academia, which are many. Looking back at some of my remarks on […]

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Steven Kadish will leave the College in September to become the senior vice president and chief operating officer at Northeastern University, according to an announcement by Interim President Carol Folt on Monday. Vice President for Campus Planning and Facilities Linda Snyder, Kadish’s wife, will depart at the same […]

On a block-long industrial site, once home to an air bag maker and water filter manufacturer, an advanced computing center is taking shape. When the facility begins operating in November, thousands of networked computers will allow researchers to crunch vast amounts of data to sequence genes, model the ocean, or study the effects of new […]

Over the course of the year, Greater Boston’s students have stepped up their startup game. Between Summer@HIGHLAND, Startup Summer and the Boston Startup School, students have been itching to get involved, interning from coast to coast to make a name for themselves in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Although we’ve already given you a list of nine […]

Although teen employment numbers have been falling since 2000, the job market for those ages 16 to 19 looks bleaker than ever this year, particularly for teenagers from low-income families. “We are truly in a labor market depression for teens,” said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. “More […]

There’s nothing like six days without electricity in the middle of a record heat wave to leave one with the feeling that somebody must be doing something wrong. I shouldn’t really complain too much. Some of our neighbors had trees crash through their houses during the storm, and others went more than a week without […]

Future archeologists who stumble upon the annals of local government, circa 2012, may find this era remarkable for the things we tried to get rid of: enormous sodas, small plastic water bottles, public swearing, fatty food, loud leaf blowers. Many of the bans aim to make their communities healthier, as childhood obesity rates have more […]

Baltimore officials say young adults need a leg up into the workforce Just a third of Maryland teens worked last summer, compared with well over half in 2000, according to an analysis by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. Nationwide, the slump was just as severe. The center says the […]

As the prolific and insightful author anonymous once said: “The two things you don’t want to see being made are legislation and sausage.” The latest evidence for this same observation is how the federal government manages and calculates the Consumer Price Index. Looking at how the CPI is calculated shows how inflation is underestimated and […]