The Patriot Ledger Report says Mass. economy growing In its leading index, MassBenchmarks reported the Massachusetts economy is expected to grow at an annualized rate of 2.9 percent over the next six months, or through March 2015. “After a weak weather-affected first quarter and the rebound in the second quarter, both the Massachusetts and U.S. economies seem to have returned to moderate growth, […]
Report warns of future Mass. labor shortage “The real barrier to meeting some of those needs is very much in our vocational schools that desperately need to be expanded,” Barry Bluestone, a report author and professor of political economy at Northeastern University, told WBUR’s Morning Edition on Monday. He pointed to waiting lists for the state’s existing vocational schools, and said Massachusetts has not built a new […]