But employers’ expectations can also ebb and flow with the state of the labor market. Beginning in 2007, firms posting job listings in a variety of industries began requesting bachelor’s degrees or multiple years of experience where previously neither was required.Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University, calls this cyclical phenomenon, in which an […]

n 1987, when I was a senior in college, my debate partner and I won the National Debate Championship, and I finished first individually. Before and during law school, I coached high school and college debate. Now, my son competes, and I spend many weekend days judging high school debate. Last night, I watched every […]

“Massachusetts is experiencing a burst of economic growth reminiscent of the 1990s,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and an author of the report. The tech boom of the late 1990s fueled one of the most prosperous periods in the state’s modern history as the unemployment rate fell below 3 percent — until […]

Level, a venture that offers students courses in data analytics, has a motto of sorts. It’s written in large letters acrossthe program’s website: “Real skills. Real experience. Two months.” The motto sounds a lot like the boot-camp style of education offered by companies like General Assembly. But Level, a product of Northeastern University, is neither […]

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, called the police involvement “a positive development” but cautioned that officers need the tools to fulfill this role effectively. Police academy training does not address the issue, and officers’ success at getting someone into treatment doesn’t win them a promotion, he noted. “Their […]

Early research into sitting too much confirmed that being sedentary is bad for the body. Now, scientists are analyzing the best ways to break up the sitting habit, said Dinesh John, an assistant professor in the Health Sciences Department at Northeastern University in Boston. It’s not yet be shown how much people should stand or […]

After two history-making Republican debates, what can we expect from the Democrats? Five contenders–Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb–will take the stage on Tuesday in a match that is likely to feel very different from the Republican extravaganzas of August and September. Some key points of comparison: VIEWERSHIP. Each of […]

“It’s not easy to get these things right,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, who studies such efforts. “And it’s a bigger stretch when you’re trying to turn a company into something much larger than it was before. Here it failed spectacularly.” The FTC defends its approval of the Haggen deal, saying […]

Dillon said few new three-deckers are expected to be built in the future, though the city encourages people to live in existing ones by by offering home repair and downpayment assistance programs. “In the last 50 years, none of that [triple-decker] housing has been built. Instead, it has been high-rise apartments, especially luxury ones,” said […]

In the aftermath of the massacre on the campus of Umpqua Community College, Americans are again debating the effectiveness of crime-fighting measures such as improved background checks and gun control laws. In reality, for the sake of reducing mass shootings, background checks will hardly make a difference. Some school rampage shooters secure guns from their […]