The Daily Signal 2% of American workers have been unemployed for at least six months The Beveridge Curve is a visual relationship between unemployment and job vacancies. As Northeastern University’s Rand Ghayad and Bill Dickens first showed, the Beveridge Curve for the long-term unemployed has shifted sharply since the beginning of the recession. The shift shows that the job market for the long-term unemployed is uniquely bad–despite research finding less […]
NECN Doctor: We need to think differently about the flu Dr. Thomas Webster of Northeastern University discusses the CDC’s claim that the flu virus has mutated.
Sizing up a prosecutor’s performance Elected officials, legal experts and police officers on Thursday differed on Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan ’s handling of the grand jury that declined to indict the officer involved in Eric Garner ’s death. Mr. Donovan promised a fair and thorough investigation when he convened the grand jury in August and went on to […]
More than 100 colleges made pledges at the first White House summit. Here’s how 6 fared. Northeastern University (Mass.): What it pledged: Northeastern pledged to fund 150 scholarships for students from Boston’s public schools, including 30 new scholarships covering the full “demonstrated need” of low-income public-school students who live near the university’s main campus. What it’s done: The university has filled about 130 of the scholarship spots and says it will […]
Al Jazeera America The Garner case aims more anger at police Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island in New York. That comes after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a plainclothes police officer involved in Garner’s death, despite a video of the incident. […]
International Business Times Did the Justice Department do enough to protect American Airline consumers? Airline industry advocates often point to a January PwC study that used U.S. Department of Transportation data to show that overall U.S. domestic fares had risen only 2 percent since 2004, concluding that airline mergers actually help keep fares low. But Northeastern University economist John Kwoka says that most careful economic studies of mergers examine […]
Too much high school sports? In his 1910 essay on “The American Boy“, Theodore Roosevelt wrote about the value of athletics, specifically football, and the lessons that sports can teach. He said, “in life, as in a football game, the principal to follow is: hit the ground hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.” Words to […]
Phys.org Scientists review worldwide rise of ‘network of networks’ “Because most natural and engineered systems are composed of multiple subsystems and layers of connectivity, it is important to consider these features in order to improve our understanding of such complex systems,” state coauthors Jianxi Gao, a scientist based at Northeastern University in Boston, Daqing Li, based at Beihang University in Beijing, and Shlomo Havlin, […]
The Lowell Sun Six ways to make the Mass. economy roar A Northeastern University study and state and federal labor statistics reveal a huge labor surplus; and that workforce is the most innovative, flexible, hardworking and educated in the world.But a thin tissue of little-known rules, laws and taxes that forbid project-based problem-solving, and suppress hiring, startups and self-employment in many fields creates a barrier between […]
No need for irrational fears of student loans The next generation of college students has heard the message loud and clear about the perils of taking on too much student loan debt – so much so that many are unwilling to go into debt at all in order to attend college. The drawback to this wariness is that for those who do not […]
US pledges nearly $1b for Green Line extension In a commitment letter released Tuesday, the FTA estimated the total Green Line extension project would cost just under $2.3 billion. After the federal government’s contribution of $996 million of competitive “New Start” grant funds, the remainder of the funding will come from the state. Stephanie Pollack, the associate director of The Dukakis Center for […]
In short-term unemployment news, good and bad news The good news is that fewer people are out of work and that more companies are hiring. The bad news is that there appears to be little room for improvement in these areas. The relationship between job vacancies and unemployment is known as the Beveridge Curve. The curve is a visual way to distinguish cyclical […]