Report Is Bullish On State’s Life Sciences Investments Based on those projections, each dollar in tax incentives awarded under the law will generate $1.66 in added tax revenue, according to the report, written by economists Barry Bluestone and Alan Clayton-Matthews of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University and released at a foundation forum on Tuesday […]
WGBH $57M in Tax Credits Helped Create 2,500 Life Sciences Jobs … Maybe Patrick joined researchers from Northeastern University who presented a report showing that the state has given out $56.6 million in tax credits, and life sciences companies have created 2,537 new jobs in Massachusetts. The news was, in part, a pitch to the private sector for help — encouraging investors to put money into clusters of […]
Long-term joblessness hits older workers hard The number of people 45 and older who have been jobless for more than a year has quadrupled since 2007, accounting for nearly half of the 3.5 million Americans out of work for more than a year, according to the US Department of Labor. “Historically, we’ve never seen anything that comes close to this; these […]
Massachusetts Plan Starts Small for Big Upgrade to Rail System “The plan is ambitious,” said Stephanie Pollack, a transportation specialist at the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “And it’s depressing that this is considered ambitious when most of the money is going to fixing what we have now.” But, she said, “this is probably the first time in decades that […]
Finding Her Own Voice The NPR story follows Northeastern University speech scientist Rupal Patel as she works to develop an electronic voice to replace the generic ones on Samantha’s iPad, a new voice based on the actual sounds that Samantha produces naturally. The voices that currently exist are actually pretty diverse. If you’re imagining the sound of Stephen Hawking’s […]
Richard Davey hits road to pitch transportation plan Stephanie Pollack, associate director at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said the campaign efforts could be criticized for focusing too heavily on grandiose new projects — expensive investments like the South Coast Rail — rather than the roughly 80 percent of the plan that will go toward bridge and road repair, […]
Analysis: In suing clinic over drugs, U.S. baseball may be targeting players That could prove a tough sell, since BioGenesis’ actions likely were motivated by profits, not by a specific desire to break the contract, law experts said. Roger Abrams, a sports law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, used the example of player contracts that call for the player to hit specific weight targets in spring […]
Immigrants in Mass. now likely to be more educated Alan Clayton-Matthews, Northeastern professor, said he has witnessed firsthand one of the reasons why, in Santa María Tzejá, a remote village in Guatemala that saw brutal violence during the 36-year civil war. Townsfolk fled to the mountains and refugee camps in Mexico, but then in the 1990s returned to rebuild the town. They also built […]
Cigars expected to be targeted by FDA regulation The FDA has yet to outline its plans, leaving plenty of speculation about whether the agency will regulate different cigars differently — without creating loopholes. “If they can’t figure out a way to keep this thing from being gamed, then they basically shouldn’t make any exemptions,” said Richard A. Daynard, a Northeastern University law professor and […]
Engadget RISE:2013 highlights: Kinect rehab, Lego lobsters, 3D printed tech and more We were excited and honored when the administration at Northeastern Universityasked us to help judge its RISE:2013 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo. The event, held at the physical education center on the school’s Boston campus, brings together an incredibly diverse array of research projects covering a impressive number of fields, including physical and life sciences, engineering, […]
Mass. has regained jobs lost in last recession Massachusetts has regained all the jobs lost in the last recession after a steady recovery that has progressed faster than the nation’s. The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday that employment in Massachusetts reached 3.3 million jobs, about 14,000 more than in April 2008, when employment peaked before the recession. “That is a significant […]
A Smart Bandage To Let You Know When Your Wounds Are Infected As medical technology continues to advance, the lowly bandage continually gets left behind. Sure, it was exciting when Clear Strips bandages were introduced in 1957. And the Liquid Bandage, unveiled in 2002, is nothing to sniff at. But where are our sensor-filled Band-Aids? They’re coming soon, thanks in part to work being done by Ed Goluch, […]