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State of Working Massachusetts – Labor Day 2012
Even though the economy has stopped shrinking and begun to grow, that growth is too slow to fully restore the losses experienced by workers and ...
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Wages and Inequality in Massachusetts: a Labor Day Report
Even though the economy has stopped shrinking and begun to grow, that growth is too slow to fully restore the losses experienced by workers and ...
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The Minimum Wage and Job Creation
Raising the state minimum wage results in higher pay rates for low-wage workers, but how does it affect jobs and the economy? Our analysis of ...
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The State of Working Massachusetts 2011
assessment, The State of Working Massachusetts 2011, shows that while Massachusetts has shared in this hardship, its economy is performing better than the rest of ...
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Median Household Income Dropped in Massachusetts and the U.S. in 2010
On September 22, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual update of state-level data on household income from the American Community Survey (ACS). These data ...
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2010 Poverty Rate Increases in Both Massachusetts and Across the Country
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual update of state-level poverty rates from the American Community Survey (ACS). In contrast to the Census' Current ...
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U.S. Poverty Rate Rises Again
New Census Bureau data released today show that the national poverty rate increased for the third year in a row in 2010, rising to 15.1 ...
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Jobs and the Massachusetts Economy, Labor Day 2011
After a deep recession that officially began in December of 2007 and ended in June of 2009, the US economy is now in a period ...
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Workforce Characteristics and Wages in the Public and Private Sectors
Across the country there has recently been extensive attention focused on issues relating to public employee compensation. This report examines Massachusetts wage and benefits data ...
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Demystifying the State Pension System
The Massachusetts State Board of Retirement, which administers the Massachusetts State Employees' Retirement System (MERS), was established in 1911 as the second-oldest public pension system ...
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