When a foreign company acquires a domestic firm, it often leads to outcries of indignation, nostalgia (€œanother of our once great companies in foreign hands€), and calls for legislation to prevent any more foreign poaching. Politicians and union leaders proclaim that the foreign owners may not be dedicated to keep up investment in the subsidiary, […]

As commerce secretary under Bill Clinton, William Daley worked with U.S. pharmaceutical giants to curb the use of cheaper generic drugs abroad. As a board member for Abbott Laboratories, he had a front-row seat on a brutal clash between a major drug company and a developing nation over access to life-saving medication. And as White […]

Apparently some things don’t improve with age.

Local economists blasted President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill yesterday, saying it would cost taxpayers $200,000 per job and not do enough to boost employment.

The scale of job losses among men in Rhode Island over the last four years has created depression-level conditions in the state, a leading labor economist said Tuesday.

Six Democratic and six Republican senators, are at work at a task that is possibly the most challenging of their political careers: devise a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit in a manner both political parties can live with.

Dozens of Boston Public Schools coaches received advanced concussion training at Northeastern University yesterday, designed to help reduce the risk of head trauma-related injuries in student athletes and prevent longer-term effects such as degenerative brain disease.

A new report says the number of Massachusetts residents working part-time jobs has jumped 18 percent in the first eight months of the year, an indication that the economic recovery has been weak.

Nearly 100 people attended a special celebration in September honoring Cambridge Health Alliance staff and community members working to advance the practice of nursing.

The number of people who took part-time jobs because they were unable to find full-time work has grown nearly fourfold in Massachusetts since 2000 and has been accelerating at an alarming pace for much of this year, according to an analysis by Northeastern University.

Times are hard for teens these days. Really hard.

As rivals piled on, Texas Gov. Rick Perry found himself trying to swat down allegations at Thursday night’s debate that he is soft on illegal immigration and would shred Social Security.