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 […]

US employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, the third straight month of weak hiring and a potential setback for the campaign to reelect President Obama, who on Friday called on voters to take a long view of the slowly recovering economy, but was slammed by rivals for the persistently dismal jobs numbers. Although Friday’s […]

How much is a college worth? For every dollar society puts into a school — either through direct government funding or by granting tax-exempt status — how much public benefit is realized? It is a deceptively simple question that has defied an easy answer. But as tuitions rise and the economy drags, there is a […]

All eyes will be on the federal jobs report today, with President Obama hoping that June’s employment numbers surpass last month’s dismal growth. Several economists pointed yesterday to the ADP National Employment Report showing jobs growth in the private sector increased by 176,000 last month, which, if confirmed by the federal government’s figures today, would […]

It was patriotism that prompted Angelo Giambusso to join the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942. Seventy years later, Giambusso, 88, who lives at Edgewood Retirement Community with his wife, Terry, said he still gets a “tingle” when he hears “The Star-Spangled Banner” or “God Bless America.” He was proud to be an American during […]

If Saudi Arabia insists on remaining the last holdout against allowing females to compete, their invitation to Britain is revoked. “You’ve got a single country that’s being intransigent,” Martha Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University who specializes in women’s rights, said Thursday. “Certainly in the past, after years of apartheid, the Olympic bureaucracy was […]