Business West Work in Progress When asked why he became involved, Peters referenced a recent report authored by Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, whom he’s heard speak a number of times on the subject of the importance of employment opportunities for young people. He said Sum’s message has always been consistent — […]
NBC News UPS workers vote to authorize strike while cheering unexpected progress on heat safety Seth Harris, a law and policy professor at Northeastern University who served as President Joe Biden’s top labor policy adviser, said progress on heat safety at UPS could have broader ripple effects.
The Herald News ‘An opportunity for business’: Young workers prefer green policies over green salaries In November, the Boston Foundation held a virtual forum to analyze the Inaugural Boston Climate Progress Report conducted by Northeastern University researchers.
Biden embraces drug courts, but do they actually work? “Because our laws are not well-calibrated to address actual problematic drug use, the criminal justice system has developed these alternative pathways to keep people out of jail,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at the Northeastern University School of Law who specializes in drug policy. “It might sound progressive, but […]
New Scientist A social network built for donating aims to fix slacktivism “It’s basically like a progressive tax scheme,” says Christo Wilson, who studies algorithms and social networks at Northeastern University in Boston: it redistributes the income of high-earners to low-income individuals. But Wilson has a number of concerns. “If I were really evil, I’d use this to launder money.” Criminals are always looking for ways to […]
Economists see labor shortage as workers retire Rising poverty and income inequality pose major challenges for Massachusetts, according to the forecast. The state is home to a vibrant technology sector, boasting the highest educational attainment levels in the country and earnings per worker that are nearly 20 percent higher than the nation as a whole. But poverty and inequality have been rising, […]
There is progress in emerging lands Ruchir Sharma’s “The Emerging-Market Comedown” (op-ed, Jan. 22) is a useful antidote to all the hype about emerging economies, but he is wrong to assert that incomes in poor countries aren’t gradually converging with those of rich countries. Economist Angus Maddison’s work has shown that since emerging economies gained independence, and especially after they embraced […]
The Christian Science Monitor FBI asks Americans to help ID masked Islamic State jihadi. Good idea? Since the Boston bombing, police departments in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara County have adopted a technology called LEEDIR, which allows them to solicit and sort through crowdsourced evidence during a crisis. Determining when crowdsourcing helps and when it is counterproductive is still a work in progress, Martin Dias, an expert on information sharing, told […]
Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’ Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University who has written about Walker’s work, said she is one of many influential progressive figures who have made profoundly contentious statements. “The question becomes, what do we do with one another when these moments happen,” Kaplan said. “One answer is that we cancel one another. […]
ThinkProgress Coverage of Barcelona attack highlights ‘empathy gap’ John Wihbey, associate professor of journalism and media at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, told ThinkProgress that there is no one reason driving the decisions behind the different coverage of these attacks. “There’s some xenophobia/stereotyping that is at work, and at the same time its indisputable that more planes fly into Paris and Barcelona from […]
Where can a new kid in town make some friends? We tried four D.C. group activities to find out This fitness group began in Boston in November 2011, when two former Northeastern University rowers got together for a month of early-morning workouts, tracking their progress in a Google doc titled “November Project.” After recruiting their friends, who recruited their friends, who recruited their friends, the November Project workouts snowballed into a phenomenon with dozens […]
Academe’s poisonous call-out culture We are in the midst of the Trumpian apocalypse, writes Suzanna Danuta Walters, professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Actual bigoted provocateurs like Charles Murray and Ann Coulter throw flames in the academy. Hate crimes against trans people and people of color and Muslims are on the rise; women’s reproductive rights are on the line, […]