A study in the journal Health Affairs this month found that hospitals with higher charity care amounts tend to spend less on community health programs. So an increase in uninsured patients might create “financial pressures” for hospitals to spend even less on them, said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and a health policy researcher […]

Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, voiced his concerns to the website Gizmodo: “If a database of faceprints were compromised,” he said, “it would have a ripple effect on authentication systems that used the faceprint, as well as possibly allow unauthorised parties to make use of the faceprint for surveillance.”

A majority of economists in a separate Reuters poll last week said NAFTA will probably be renegotiated successfully with no significant changes, despite the Trump administration’s saber-rattling. “I still suspect that adults will prevail and NAFTA will not be allowed to collapse,” said William Dickens, head of the economics department at Northeastern University in Boston.

I would put the microcredentialing trend as a major sub-theme within a broader conversation about job outcomes and competency-based education. Virtually all of the microcredentials that have been launched and offered—and where the enrollments are and where companies appear most interested—are oriented toward professional and technical skills and disciplines. But whether it’s supply-chain management or […]

The law is the legal manifestation of differing ideologies held by Massachusetts’ state government and the current federal administration, an example of the inherent tension contained within a federalist system, according to WGBH’s Legal Analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed.

Before the snowstorm earlier this month, I was looking for a new pair of boots and eventually just settled on a great, but relatively expensive, pair. A few days later, I found out the LL Bean store in the Prudential Center was selling the same brand, but for a better price. Had I known about Shopert, […]

We need to make people robot-proof in the wake of the fourth revolution and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), according to AI expert, and the president of Northeastern University, Joseph Auon.

Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews found that 4.5 percent of single filers and 41.7 percent of joint filers have state and local property tax payments that exceed $10,000. That means hundreds of thousands of filers could be affected.

“ArtoftheMarch.Boston” is an interactive, digital trove — and a large one at that — of the many slogans, sayings, and witty and creative phrases that were scribbled or delicately drawn onto the placards people brought to the demonstration in January of last year, one day after President Trump’s inauguration. A throng of marchers attended the […]

Dov Waxman, co-director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University, discusses Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.”

Ever wonder what happened to the signs from the Women’s March in Boston last year? With the help of Northeastern University, a team of scholars, students and volunteers created an online archive of more than 6,000 posters and pieces of artwork from the Jan. 21, 2017 protest.

A singular focus on developing housing, however, may not be the way to establishing broader economic development and jobs for the city, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a policy and economics professor at Northeastern University whose work focuses on labor market dynamics. But she said such a focus may attract people who have been priced out […]