The Boston Herald Help wanted in manufacturing State officials and industry leaders today will hold the first meeting of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative to draw attention to a sector whose work force is aging and projected to have 100,000 job openings over the next decade. While some analysts have predicted the decline of industry as a major economic player, manufacturing is Massachusetts’ […]
The Hechinger Report Survey: U.S. higher education must change to remain globally competitive Nearly half of all Americans have a dim view of the quality of U.S. higher education, and most think it’s not only too expensive but also only a fair or poor return on their investment, according to the results of a new survey. Most of those surveyed—particularly college-aged Americans themselves—agree that U.S. higher education must […]
New Northeastern Survey Reveals Higher Education Needs Innovation—Now Northeastern’s newest survey woke up academia today, reiterating the ever-present, looming, yet feared, truth: the higher education system needs to change, and it needs to change now.
WGBH Radio Racial Disparity Among Boston Commuters AUDIO: If you use the MBTA to commute to work, you know it can take a very long time to travel just a few miles. But, if you’re black, chances are your commute on the MBTA is longer than your white counterparts- to the tune of 66 hours longer per year if you take the […]
The Patriot Ledger America, and its problems, make it hard to love The United States is a hard country to love right now. Economic growth has been anemic, too many Americans are looking for work, others are watching their real incomes fall, and the middle class is seeing its purchasing power decline. Income inequality is at historic highs; the ever-widening gap between low wage earners and the […]
Micro units: Perfect pad, imperfect price Micro units will likely be cool, with features such as convertible storage and bicycle wall mounts. What they’re less likely to be, regrettably, is affordable.
Bloomberg Businessweek Iran must be ready to listen to foreign experts who can help it lower inflation down Iran has to be ready to listen to foreign experts that can offer valuable advice on how the country could stabilize its currency rate and lower inflation, but it should be ready to heed the councel, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah told Trend.
Overdose Antidote: What The Government Doesn’t Do, And What You Can You hear a lot these days about the national epidemic of painkiller overdoses. What you don’t hear so much about is what you can do to respond to those overdoses when they happen, much as we learn about CPR or defibrillators for heart attacks. In an opinion piece just out in the Journal of the […]
Advice To The Next President: Gun Violence In Cities Is gun violence inevitably a pervasive fact of life in urban neighborhoods of 21st century America? Or can the staggeringly high murder rates — and the ongoing trauma that results — be diminished or eliminated? With over 60 years of combined experience working on city streets, Edward Powell, Jon Feinman and Edward Davis offer their […]
MBTA, highway system face vast budget deficits Just months after the MBTA raised fares, the T faces a $130 million deficit for the next budget year, according to an analysis released Monday by a regional think tank. But that daunting financial gap is eclipsed by a $240 million shortfall to operate the highway system, the study concluded. The budget analysis, conducted by […]
VentureCrowd Launches at Northeastern to Connect Entrepreneurially-Minded Talent with Companies At a school with over 16,000 undergraduates like Northeastern, cross-pollination between departments and organizations isn’t easy to enforce. “Design students keep to design students, business students to business students,” says Ryan Johnson, who’s been working with Bret Siarkowski to develop a solution: VentureCrowd.
Study: Mass. Faces Huge Transportation Deficits An analysis by a regional think tank says the state’s highway system faces a $240 million operating shortfall for the next fiscal year, while the MBTA is facing a $130 million deficit. The budget analysis released Monday by the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University does not include money to address […]