Massachusetts employers grew a bit more confident in June but remained slightly pessimistic overall in the face of federal policy changes, especially uncertainty about tariffs, according new confidence index results.
“If you’ve moved apartments recently, you’ve probably paid four months rent up front – first month, last month, security deposit and a broker’s fee for a broker you didn’t even hire,” the governor said.
A redevelopment project in Monson that could create at least 600 housing units hit a milestone as state officials began transferring 100 acres of land from a former Department of Developmental Services campus.
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts climbed once again in May, widening the gap between the state and the nation as a whole following a year of nearly flat job growth in the Bay State.
A new program tied to the 2024 housing law is being tapped to support nearly 200 new rental units in downtown Boston, part of an effort to transform vacant class B offices into housing.
The governor’s pitch to leverage the new income surtax could generate 15,000 to 20,000 construction and other jobs, the administration claims.
Total employment in the Massachusetts life sciences industry remained effectively flat in 2024, a key source of pressure for lab landlords.
Massachusetts could face billions in lost federal revenue and heightened economic risk under the second Trump administration, a budget expert warned lawmakers Thursday, but he emphasized that a broad economic downturn could deal the hardest blow.
Massachusetts banks are just some of the firms benefiting from the Healey administration’s new cuts to business regulations announced Wednesday.
More than 400 Bay Staters have filed petitions for their eviction records to be sealed since a new law took effect earlier this month, Sen. Lydia Edwards said Wednesday.
MBTA overseers on Tuesday unanimously approved the latest five-year plan to invest in systemwide improvements, embracing a $9.8 billion roadmap that one watchdog group called a “nuts and bolts” approach.
The Healey administration is proposing a strategy that also eyes building code changes to protect the Massachusetts coastline from rising seas and intensifying storms.
The statewide unemployment rate climbed again in April to 4.6 percent, slightly widening the gap with the national joblessness rate, labor officials said Friday.
Landscape contractors are calling on state lawmakers to address slip-and-fall liability issues that snow and ice removal service providers face across Massachusetts.
Beacon Hill is immersed in debate over how many more millions of dollars to devote to the MBTA, but transit services outside of the T region are absorbed in their own challenges they must face with even less funding.
Lagging job growth in the state is seen as the big reason the state’s economy appears likely to slow down through the third quarter.
Brian Shortsleeve, a former Baker administration MBTA executive, venture capitalist and Marine Corps veteran, announced his candidacy for governor a platform to “bring commonsense conservative leadership to Beacon Hill.”
Mike Kennealy is the first major challenger to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey in the 2026 gubernatorial race. On housing, he says he’ll work “in partnership” with towns to build more homes.
The idea to exempt multifamily projects’ building materials would first be studied by a commission before any changes get formally proposed.
Tariff policies and national political developments slid Massachusetts employers further into a state of pessimism in April.
