While the Labor Department reported job growth of 288,000 jobs in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates job growth for biomanufacturing technicians will be about 10 percent from 2012 to 2022. This should translate into 8,000 new jobs over the decade. Hundreds of those jobs will be added in Massachusetts, the state with […]

Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University, told The Post the emphasis in this case has been on the girls’ relationship to Slender Man when it should be on their relationship to each other. “This was a secret shared by two girls, a plan hatched in private, a pact made between […]

The 1.7 million students who graduated from American colleges and universities in recent months, their newly minted bachelor’s degrees in hand, face bleak prospects. Their average student-loan debt is some $33,000. The underemployment rate for recent graduates is 44 percent, meaning the jobs many get won’t require the bachelor’s degrees they just earned. And since […]

A monthly confidence index that seeks to take the temperature of Bay State employers declined from May to June, said the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, a group that represents the state’s employers. The index posted a reading of 53.7 in June, down from a reading of 54.8 in May. The reading for June 2013 was […]

But even if Facebook’s experimentation “creeps you out,” a la Susan Fiske, you realistically, as a user, don’t want it to stop. Why? It makes Facebook better for you. In the two hours it’s taken me to write this, Facebook has probably run dozens of “experiments” on new features and design changes that will make […]

It was a remarkable result: By manipulating the news feeds of thousands of Facebook users, without their knowing consent, researchers working with the goliath of social media found that they could spur a significant, if small, effect on people’s behavior in the world beyond bits. The year was 2010. The scientists were poking at voting […]

As Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings continue to unfold, once again some creditors and commentators are arguing that the city should sell off the Detroit Institute of Art’s art collection to pay off the city’s creditors, among whom are thousands of retired city workers. The pro-liquidators would have the pensioners vote against a federally mediated Grand Bargain […]