Reporting on the release of the monthly jobs numbers last Friday, we spoke with Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestoneabout what he called generally good news: 200,000 people back to work and the unemployment rate down to 7 percent. But for those people “out of the economy,” in Bluestone’s words, or the long-term unemployed, of whom there are consistently about […]

Written by former MA Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach, an ardent advocate for the creation of the Trust, it describes the broad coalition of folks who came together starting in 2011 to push for the Trust’s creation, and describes the political process involved in setting it up. In connection with the report’s release, RWJF also […]

Northeastern University Plans $227M Science, Engineering Research Center BOSTON – Northeastern University hopes to break ground next month on a $225 million science and engineering research building, joining a growing list of Boston-area colleges and universities making major investments in those fields, according to The Boston Globe. NU President Joseph E. Aoun said the facility will […]

By Dennis Shaughnessy Each year for the past six summers, forty undergraduate students studying global social enterprise at Northeastern University have had the privilege of privately meeting with Nelson Mandela’s close friend and fellow Robben Island prisoner, Dr. Ahmed Kathrada. This past year, students also met with the retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a colleague and confidant of […]

Jack Levin, author of the 2008 book, “Serial Killers and Sadistic Murders — Up Close and Personal,” said he found that more than half of serial killers he studied had abused animals, many of them maximizing the suffering of dogs and cats. He did a study comparing 150 animal abusers to those who never abused […]

Liza Weinstein The impending demolition of the Campa Cola complex is an opportunity to ask why illegal housing is the norm in Mumbai, for the middle class and the poor. With last month’s Supreme Court order and the impending eviction of 96 families from Worli’s Campa Cola housing complex, Mumbai’s rampant building code violations and […]