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Data shows many in Mass. have left the workforce
October 9, 2020The number of Massachusetts workers counted as unemployed dropped by more than 250,000 over the past two months, a decline of more than a third that helped the state escape from a short streak of owning the worst jobless rate in the country.
October 9, 2020
Rosengren: Stimulus failure likely means chronic unemployment
October 9, 2020The federal government's failure to approve another stimulus bill endangers economic recovery from the pandemic-inflicted recession, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston cautioned on Thursday, echoing a similar warning the Fed's top leader
October 9, 2020
Transportation and Climate Initiative gets corporate push
October 8, 2020More than 100 major corporations and higher education institutions wrote to governors Thursday voicing "strong support" for an in-development regional effort to curb transportation greenhouse gas emissions that will raise gasoline prices.
October 8, 2020
UMass Medical School professor named to Mass. Vaccine Advisory Group
October 8, 2020A UMass Medical School professor and department chair, Dr. Robert Finberg, was among 17 people named to Massachusetts' new Vaccine Advisory Group, the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration announced on Wednesday.
October 8, 2020
Ad campaign’s goal: Opening up about mental health
October 8, 2020A new state public awareness campaign aims to encourage people to check in with their friends and loved ones and remember that there may be "more to the story" when it comes to someone's mental health.
October 8, 2020
Health equity ideas run into wall of state budget woes
October 8, 2020A panel of public health experts and elected officials is poised to recommend sweeping legislative action to address the COVID-19 pandemic's disproportionate impacts across demographic groups, but their ideas could be clouded by the state's shaky
October 8, 2020
Brookfield man charged with unemployment fraud to pay $31K
October 6, 2020Two Massachusetts residents, including a man in Brookfield, who were charged with unemployment fraud will pay almost $64,000 in restitution to the Department of Unemployment Assistance, Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Tuesday.
October 6, 2020
Diversity — and diversity data — elusive for cities and towns
October 6, 2020A few months ago, amid nationwide protests around racial injustice and police brutality, Lowell residents came to the City Council with a complaint: The makeup of City Hall did not represent the makeup of the diverse Mill City, they said.
October 6, 2020-
State holding firm on paid leave tax, benefit levels
October 5, 2020As it begins a second year of collecting a tax from employers to fund a soon-to-launch state benefit program, a state agency announced that it will not make any changes to the contribution rate or maximum weekly benefit for the next year.
October 5, 2020 
President Trump, First Lady test positive for COVID-19
October 2, 2020President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced early Friday, and the president's physician said they were both "well at this time."
October 2, 2020
WPI receives $4.9M federal grant to support cybersecurity scholarship programs
September 30, 2020Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester has received $4.9 million in grants from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Defense to support scholarship programs for undergraduate and graduate students who commit to cybersecurity-
September 30, 2020-
Healey alleges law firm took more than $90,000 in kickbacks
September 28, 2020Attorney General Maura Healey has filed suit against a Massachusetts law firm alleging it accepted of tens of thousands of dollars in illegal kickbacks, but the firm denies the charges against it and says there was no quid pro quo.
September 28, 2020 
FERC gives quick okay for compressor station startup
September 28, 2020Federal regulators gave energy giant Enbridge the green light on Thursday to start service at the Weymouth natural gas compressor station, removing the final hurdle to the facility's operation less than two weeks after an emergency shutdown prompted
September 28, 2020
Worcester's relationship with Polar Park remains under negotiation
Updated: September 28, 2020More than two years after Worcester city officials announced the Pawtucket Red Sox were moving to the Canal District, there is no formal lease agreement legally obligating the team to come to Worcester.
Updated: September 28, 2020
Worcester declines to change restaurant dining rules
September 25, 2020The City of Worcester will not loosen restaurant dining regulations after Gov. Charlie Baker amended the Massachusetts rules, which will otherwise begin Monday.
September 25, 2020
Worcester Redevelopment Authority approves critical Polar Park land deal
September 25, 2020The Worcester Redevelopment Authority approved Friday morning a deal giving the city the land where the Polar Park baseball stadium is being built and where the minor league Worcester Red Sox will play in April.
September 25, 2020
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