It’s new data that makes many fear today’s 20-somethings may be “a lost generation,” numbers showing that far too many people in that age group are struggling to find meaningful jobs or settling for part-time work well below what they’re capable of doing.

By day, True Vine Ministries on Isabella Street in West Oakland serves as a center for Bible study and worship.

Northeastern University School of Law has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce to set up a center at the school that will provide free legal services to local low-income or under-served entrepreneurs, the school said on Thursday.

The existing Massachusetts law for trying and punishing juveniles charged with murder, arguably the stiffest in the United States in terms of breadth and rigidity, was enacted amidst a climate of fear fueled by wide-ranging media hype about juvenile violence. Not only was the 1996 statute crafted in the wake of a particularly heinous juvenile […]

The poverty data released by the Census Bureau last week may well be the straw that broke the camel’s back — the camel being those deliberately blind people who can’t seem to acknowledge that most Americans are doing poorly. Average Americans should not be the ones who have to shoulder the burden of balancing the […]

In record-setting numbers, young adults struggling to find work are shunning long-distance moves to live with Mom and Dad, delaying marriage and buying fewer homes, often raising kids out of wedlock. They suffer from the highest unemployment since World War II and risk living in poverty more than others – nearly 1 in 5.

Northeastern University’€™s Entrepreneurs Club was recently ranked sixth in the world of the 20 best entrepreneurship clubs by FledgeWing, an online network that provides aspiring student entrepreneurs with the tools they need to develop, build and launch new companies. The Club is now striving to bring what they’ve learned over the years to a new […]

As the mother of an 18-month old son and full-time marketing consultant, Chrisanne Sternal, 36, says she’s constantly asking herself, “Who are you going to let down today?” Between setting up doctor’s appointments and juggling her own clients, Sternal feels like there’s never enough time. That’s why she’s considering quitting her job to become a […]

Often lost in the fact that Boston is such a great sports city are the things that happen in the undercurrent of the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics and Patriots, the teams that always appear on the under card and the societies that build themselves around them.

More than a third of young American families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data that offers the latest indicator of spreading poverty in America.

Americans’ pessimism about the economy and its future is deepening, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and they are increasingly willing to hold President Obama responsible for hard times.

The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the oldest public arts school in the country, is pursuing a $120 million expansion and redesign of its campus along Huntington Avenue, joining a slew of colleges and museums whose building projects are rapidly redefining Boston as a hub for contemporary art.