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Local landlords are selling their properties to investors amid eviction moratorium
Updated: September 13, 2021Small-time landlords selling their properties has become something of a trend this year. More often than not, they aren’t selling to other locals.
Updated: September 13, 2021
Health insurance coverage gaps for Worcester’s immigrant population weighs heavy on healthcare providers
Updated: September 13, 2021Holes in health insurance coverage are causing major disparities, as well as a growing burden on Central Massachusetts healthcare providers.
Updated: September 13, 2021
Cannabis regulators & local operators take up the fight for industry equity
Updated: September 13, 2021Inequalities in the industry persist, and large multistate operators continue to dominate the cannabis market, even in the face of several Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission programs designed to give certain groups of people a leg up in
Updated: September 13, 2021
Closeted companies: Businesses who identify as LGBTQ+owned remain disproportionately low
September 8, 2021Even though the LGBTQ+ community represents a significant portion of the Central Massachusetts population, the number of owners who identify their businesses as such remains low.
September 8, 2021
Clark tabs Iowa State VP as chief officer of diversity, equity and inclusion
September 7, 2021Clark University has named Margo Foreman as permanent vice president and chief officer of diversity, equity and inclusion, the school announced on Tuesday.
September 7, 2021
Fitchburg State running course on workplace culture and bias
August 23, 2021Fitchburg State University’s Center for Professional Studies announced on Monday it will be running a course on the complexity of culture and bias in the workplace.
August 23, 2021
40 Under Forty: Tiffiny A. Butler PhD, ATC
Updated: August 16, 2021To say Tiffiny Butler chases her passions would be an understatement, as she serves as a leader in virtually every community she touches.
Updated: August 16, 2021
Despite improvement, cannabis companies still struggle for full banking access
Updated: August 16, 2021When Ulyssess Youngblood was initially looking for financing for his Worcester cannabis business Major Bloom, he spoke to several local banks about loans, but was rejected by every one.
Updated: August 16, 2021
40 Under Forty 2021: Ronald Bernard Waddell Jr.
Updated: August 16, 2021Ronald Bernard Waddell Jr. co-founded the nonprofit Legendary Legacies three years ago and has grown the organization from a startup with $60,000 in June 2020 to a $900,000 nonprofit with multi-year government funding just one year later.
Updated: August 16, 2021
Hologic to partner with Oprah Winfrey Network on healthcare equity
August 11, 2021Marlborough health technology company Hologic announced on Wednesday a partnership with the Oprah Winfrey Network to address racial disparities in health care.
August 11, 2021
UMass Medical School joins other Mass. medical schools to dismantle racism in medicine
August 10, 2021UMass Medical School in Worcester was among several groups to release on Tuesday a set of principles taking aim at racism in medical education and healthcare organizations.
August 10, 2021
Report: Mass. trails nation, as COVID deepens pay gap for Black women
August 3, 2021Black Women’s Pay Day, marking the approximate day to which full-time Black women workers would have to work in order to catch up to what white, non-Hispanic men earned in 2020, is Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021 this year.
August 3, 2021
Nominations for Outstanding Women in Business close Friday
July 28, 2021WBJ is soliciting nominations for its 13th annual Outstanding Women In Business Awards program.
July 28, 2021
Harassment allegations in the craft beer industry show importance of deliberately building a healthy workplace
Updated: July 26, 2021Toxic masculinity and bro culture are amorphous terms, but in the workplace, they manifest in clear ways.
Updated: July 26, 2021
GWCF revises pandemic, racial equity grants to focus on nonprofit effectiveness
July 19, 2021The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has opened applications into the two grant programs designed last year to be responsive to the needs exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the reckoning in racial justice, but this year with a focus on
July 19, 2021
Baker plugs homeownership assistance plan as urgent circumstance
July 19, 2021The $300 million in federal relief funds Gov. Charlie Baker is seeking to spend to expand down payment assistance would help as many as "tens of thousands of homeowners," particularly in communities of color that historically have struggled to
July 19, 2021
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