Uber and Lyft account for 15 percent of all vehicle trips inside San Francisco, according to a new report, and the majority of the trips occur in neighborhoods that already enjoy the most public transit options. The San Francisco County Transportation Authority collected San Francisco traffic data on Uber and Lyft in conjunction with Northeastern […]

Northeastern University’s Charlotte campus aims to fill the city’s shortage of high-tech workers with a new master’s program targeted at students without a background in computer science. Charlotte’s technology sector has grown 28 percent in the last five years, and there are currently more than 92,000 technology and analytics jobs in the area, the school […]

he overwhelming margin of victory in the nonbinding vote is undercut by the knowledge on the ground that Puerto Ricans are far more divided on the notion of becoming a U.S. state than the election would otherwise indicate, experts on the subject told ABC News. Amilcar Antonio Barreto, an associate professor of Cultures, Societies and […]

The need and desire for the kind of training SCSEP offers, however, far outstrips the available opportunities. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University has estimated that nine million people age 55 to 74 were eligible for SCSEP. But remember, only about 65,000 low-income older Americans participate in it annually — that’s because […]

The likelihood that the US Congress will want to take on Puerto Rico as a fully-fledged state of the union at the time of such financial meltdown is seen by most observers as slight to none. On top of that comes the nature of Puerto Rico linguistically, culturally and racially in terms of its integration […]

A virtual reality game developed by college students in Boston and based on James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is being showcased in Dublin as the Irish capital holds its annual celebration of the author and novel. “Joycestick” was developed by a Boston College class that also included Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music students.

Private waste companies are looking to be “economically efficient and politically expedient,” says Daniel Faber, director of Northeastern University’s Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC) in Boston. This means choosing host communities with lower education levels and less time, money, and resources to mobilize themselves, he says. “They are less likely to offer opposition.”

The government has said the bill is needed to ratify a U.N. treaty on international organized crime and that it would boost counterterrorism efforts ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But Nikos Passas, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who drafted a legislative guide for the U.N. treaty, takes issue with the proposition that […]

The controversial case raises contentious questions in Massachusetts, where assisting someone in a suicide is not considered a crime. Can a person be charged and convicted in someone’s death even if she was miles away from the victim when he died? And can a person be found guilty of killing someone based solely on what […]

The chemical culprit, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), is, along with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), one of two highly fluorinated toxic chemicals, known as PFCs, that are devastating to human health yet unregulated by the EPA. Leaked into water supplies by the chemical manufacturing processes of products like DuPont’s Teflon and 3M’s Scotchgard, the contaminants are linked to […]

First, the summer-job bump has declined for all ethnicities in the last 40 years. Second, summer jobs are the province of the white and wealthy. Children of richer families are more likely to take part-time in summer jobs, according to a report from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. But black and […]

Puerto Ricans themselves haven’t been united on what they want, but without a majority of voters saying yes to statehood, Congress won’t even consider the idea, noted Amilcar Barreto, an associate professor of political science, international affairs and public policy at Northeastern University. “For the past half-century, preferences for the three status options have essentially […]