Job-hunting teenagers in cities across the United States face the third bleak summer in a row. They must compete for scarce slots in scaled-back government work programs and against adults forced into low-paying positions by the unemployment crisis.

In the darkest days of the last recession, it seemed that every week another set of parents would come to Little Sprouts Day Care centers to tell teachers they had lost jobs and would have to take their children out of day care.

The state unemployment rate in May fell to its lowest level in more than three years as Massachusetts employers added jobs for the sixth consecutive month, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday.

Construction is underway on the renovation of Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center.

We’re back for another day of exploring the Northeastern University labs. We checked out a handful of projects yesterday, including the HyCycle, a runner-up in the school’s Capstone award. Today we checked out the winner: iCRAFT — that’s short for eye-Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology. The project was developed by a group of seven electrical and computer engineering students looking […]

The Squid Shirt that we checked out earlier today at Northeastern University certainly has the potential for healthcare use beyond straight off-season workout sessions, but the ATLAS project is an even purer expression of that application. The name is an acronym for the rather unwieldy Angle Tracking and Location At home System. In short, the system is a bimanual-rehabilitation […]

By the end of the decade, Boston’s subways could grow so packed that trains would roll past waiting commuters, unable to accommodate more riders, a new report from a leading land-use think tank warns.

Four years after Governor Deval Patrick signed a $1 billion initiative designed to boost the Massachusetts life sciences industry, the program has brought new companies and jobs to the state – but not as many jobs as originally anticipated.

Summer jobs for teenagers are increasingly hard to find. Only 3 out of every 10 teenagers held a full- or part-time job in July of 2011. In 1989, that rate was nearly twice as high: nearly 6 of every 10 teenagers from 16 to 19 years old held jobs, and even in July of 2005, […]

The HyCycle isn’t the kind of thing you’d want to have to take through airport security — at least not in its present state. The electricity-generating electric bike prototype is bit of a mess of wires and blinking boards at the moment, plus a battery that looks an awful lot like a block of C4. […]

Kids today may not be running around the neighborhood without fear like Beaver Cleaver, but the country is in the midst of low levels of crime not seen in decades, according to a report released this week by the FBI. Violent crime, which has been falling for five years, decreased 4 percent in 2011, according to […]

It seems like everyone’s got a solution for workout tracking, these days, and the undergrad students at Northeastern University are no different. We traveled to the bowels of the Boston school’s Egan Research Center, to try the Squid Shirt that we saw back in February on for size.