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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...