International Business Times Did the Justice Department do enough to protect American Airline consumers? Airline industry advocates often point to a January PwC study that used U.S. Department of Transportation data to show that overall U.S. domestic fares had risen only 2 percent since 2004, concluding that airline mergers actually help keep fares low. But Northeastern University economist John Kwoka says that most careful economic studies of mergers examine […]
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, […]
Boston’s business leaders lag colleagues nationally in recruiting students on college campuses, new poll says Nearly 30 percent of Boston’s top-level executives have stopped or slowed down recruiting students on college campuses since the Great Recession compared to just 17 percent of executives nationwide, according to the results of a Northeastern University poll released Tuesday. The survey included about 800 C-level executives nationwide, with 100 of them from Boston, Northeastern […]
Maker Of $1,000 Hepatitis C Pill Looks To Cut Its Cost Overseas Law professor Brook Baker at Northeastern University in Boston, an adviser to Health Global Access Project, or Health GAP, notes that Gilead allows generic manufacturers to sell its HIV drugs in over 100 countries. “So why not a similarly large number of countries for the hepatitis C drug?” Baker tells Shots. “An important question to ask is what […]
The Nation Survey: 81 Percent of Universities Say Sequester Has Directly Affected Research Activities “There is a clear and present danger that sequestration will damage America’s pre-eminence in scientific research and higher education over the long-term,” said Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun. “Given the impact we already have seen, we urge the members of the House and Senate who are negotiating funding for FY2014 and beyond to end sequestration, enable […]
Earnings Gap Narrows, but College Education Still Pays, Report Says Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies and a professor of economics at Northeastern University, said the report should have focused on an important trend among today’s new college graduates: mal-employment. “A larger share of college grads are ending up in jobs that don’t require college degrees,” Mr. Sum said. Those who […]
Patriot Ledger JOSEPH GIGLIO: While America’s losses mount, huge gains for top 1% Several weeks ago, the Federal Reserve decided not to cut back, or taper as the finance mavens say, the billion-dollar bond buying program known as quantitative easing, which is a euphemism for printing money. A gradual reduction of QE had been expected since June, when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy was getting stronger […]
Menino bet big on summer jobs How important is all of this? More than ever, if you listen to Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. Over the summer, the teen employment rate nationwide was 32 percent, the third worst showing ever. The inequities among races were even more striking: 39 percent of white teens […]
Boston.com Graduation rates among African-American students on the rise at Northeastern, study says Graduation rates among black students at Northeastern University are on the rise, according to a study by The Education Trust. According to the report, in the past decade, the graduation rate among African-American students at Northeastern has grown 27.4 percentage points — from 42.1 percent in 2002 to 69.5 percent in 2011. From 2010 to 2011 alone, […]
A Tax Fight in Pittsburgh and the Future of Non-Profit Hospitals Nationwide But local Pittsburgh politics aside, large non-profit health systems are getting new attention from city and state tax officials across the country facing budget crises. “The fact is hospitals are coming under more scrutiny,” says Gary Young, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “The city’s willingness to take on a […]
No single cause in state’s economic slowdown Governor Deval Patrick blamed political gridlock in Washington and the so-called fiscal cliff as a “direct cause” of the economic slowdown that has tamped state tax collections and created a $500 million budget shortfall. But economists say other factors deserve more blame. A weak national recovery and global economic slowdown have weighed on the Massachusetts […]
Chronicle of Higher Education: Northeastern, once local, goes global Read the full article (PDF) Less than a generation ago, Northeastern University was chiefly a local institution, drawing nearly three-quarters of its students from the surrounding New England states. Its alumni, too, largely stayed in the region. Today, however, the university’s horizons are global. Nearly 10 percent of its undergraduates come from overseas, double the […]