High school students march for jobs Even with that funding, the coalition says employment of high-school age youth has fallen dramatically, citing a 2012 report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies that put teen employment at a record low of 27 percent, compared with 54 percent in 1999.
Scientific American Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many To demonstrate their technique, Yang-Yu Liu of Northeastern University in Boston and his colleagues looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest. But the method could also be used in social networks […]
Colleges Need to Invest Wisely to Attract & Retain Students Sixty percent of people think the U.S. school system is “poor” or just “fair” and think an online degree is just the same as enrolling full-time on a campus, according to research by Northeastern University. Doesn’t this mean something? Doesn’t it show that universities really need to step it up and actually invest in making their campuses […]
U.S. News Unemployment Set to Improve, But Only So Much “There’s an increase of about 1 percent in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. So it’s around 6 percent rather than 5 percent,” says William Dickens, professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern University and former senior economist for Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. This “non-accelerating rate” is known by economists as the […]
Fox News Dyslexic brain hears fuzzy sounds Dyslexia may be rooted in a problem the brain has in teasing out distinct sounds from the incoming garble, researchers say. Considered a learning disability, dyslexia makes it difficult to read and spell for the estimated 15 percent of Americans who have it. Although dyslexia causes reading problems, the disorder is often linked to subtle […]
NBC News Women share their reasons for being at the Republican National Convention NBC’s Michael O’Brien reported Tuesday on the Republicans’ need to capture the support of women from Democrats, noting: “Obama led Romney 51 percent to 41 percent among women in the August NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and the GOP brand lags significantly behind the Democratic brand among women voters.” At the same time, there are […]
MSNBC More Mass. residents taking part-time work A new report says the number of Massachusetts residents working part-time jobs has jumped 18 percent in the first eight months of the year, an indication that the economic recovery has been weak.
Inc.com Thinking About Exporting Oversees? Since last year the Obama administration has been pushing small businesses to venture into global markets, part of an ambitious goal to double U.S. exports by 2014. For small businesses struggling to find new customers domestically, markets outside the United States may be a better bet now, with a weak dollar making exports a good […]