Worcester Business Journal Online Mass. Business Confidence Up Slightly Meanwhile, the group’s Employment Index, which measures confidence in hiring, rose to 50.6 in December, a 1.5-point jump. “Employers tend to be relatively confident about the situations of their own operations, but this is less true in times of high uncertainty,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at […]
Boston.com “It’s Like Legal Rebellion”: Student Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University When senior Dan Wendt attended his first Northeastern Entrepreneurship Club meeting in 2009 as a freshman, fifteen people showed up. A few years later though, the Entrepreneurship Club, which was founded in 2006, has grown into one of the largest and most active student business clubs in the country. Its board of directors is now […]
I Can’t Stop Looking at These Terrifying Long-Term Unemployment Charts There’s a new cliff in town, and it’s much scarier than the fiscal cliff. It doesn’t have anything to do with expiring tax cuts or sequesters. It has to do with people who have been out of work for six months or longer. It’s the worst cliff of them all: the Unemployment Cliff. Our unemployment […]
Northeastern president makes wise use of YouTube Americans love reality television, but only if the reality is worth tuning into. So it’s safe to say that most university presidents won’t be getting their own Bravo shows anytime soon. Campus administration isn’t quite as adventurous as the life of Honey Boo Boo. Still, that hasn’t stopped Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern University, […]
Why older people are often in better mood Research has shown that older adults display more positive emotions and are quicker to regulate out of negative emotional states than their younger peers. Given the declines in cognitive functioning and physical health that tend to come with age, we might expect that age would be associated with worse moods, not better ones. So what […]
Must Penn State Cleanse? Though it would have seemed unthinkable before last week, the situation at Pennsylvania State University, where a respected former assistant football coach used his connections to the program to draw in the young boys whom he later raped on campus property, was even worse than anyone imagined. Worse because not only did administrators and coaches […]
American patriots: ‘I love America with all her mess’ Definitions of American patriotism are as diverse as Americans. Political philosopher and Northeastern University professor Stephen Nathanson explores the subject in his book “Patriotism, Morality, and Peace.” He writes that patriotism is generally characterized by “special affection for one’s own country; a sense of personal identification with the country; special concern for the well-being of the country; and willingness […]
The Salt Lake Tribune Co-op program helps students gain experience before graduation Since the economic downturn, one of the biggest problems for recent college graduates has been a dearth of real-world job experience. They may have degrees from well-respected institutions, but many have been unable to get jobs because employers would rather choose workers with experience in their industries.
Many seem willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect some slack; âgood guy in the wrong placeâ He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment.
Gas tax falling short in paying for transportation needs The USA is at a critical juncture in how it pays for roads, bridges and transit. That’s because the federal tax on gasoline, the primary method since 1956, has lost one-third of its buying power since it was last raised in 1993. States add their own tax on top of that, but the federal tax […]
Mass Live Sports helps Muslim athletes cope with fallout from 9/11 Led by pioneers such as Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muslims athletes have helped introduce their faith to mainstream America. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sports again helped break down some of the barriers and that surfaced in the wake of the deadly hijackings.
NECN Rising cost of college Hardly news that the cost of college is skyrocketing here’s how much. According to inflation data dot com the price of just about everything you buy the overall inflation rate between 1985 and 2010 was 107%. But the increase in the price of tuition and other associated costs over that same 25 year period was […]