The potent hiring and retention challenges facing Massachusetts employers have been well-documented for months, and one of the state’s leading business voices has growing concerns that the existing workforce challenges are “merely a harbinger of things to come.”
After 15 months in office, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday finally unveiled a proposal to cap rent increases across the city at a maximum of 10 percent in high-inflation years, filing a multi-faceted rent control revival measure that will first go before the Boston City Council.
With train service still running at diminished levels, staffing efforts in the MBTA’s operations control center have plateaued since December, and the agency will continue to offer a $10,000 sign-on bonus through June to try and attract the dispatchers critical to reversing months-long service cuts.
State gaming regulators decided Wednesday to interpret the 2013 casino referendum in Everett to have authorized gaming on not just the current site of Encore Boston Harbor but also at least one other swath of land across the street, clearing the way for the resort-style casino’s expansion to move ahead.
Just about two months before the first few dollars in extra income tax will begin to trickle into state coffers, the Legislative Regional Transit Authority Caucus is joining other transportation and education advocates in positioning their priorities to receive those funds.
The MBTA is convening an independent team to get to the bottom of the delays in construction and delivery of more than 300 new Red and Orange Line cars, Gov. Healey announced to reporters Thursday afternoon after taking a ride on the Red Line and touring the T’s operations center.
Quintupling the estate tax threshold and slashing the capital gains tax rate led the tax reform ideas embraced Wednesday by one of the region’s leading business groups. But House Speaker Ron Mariano remained noncommittal about any tax cuts, citing changing economic conditions.
With the MBTA still awaiting more than 300 new Red and Orange Line cars to replace units that are up to 50 years old, Gov. Maura Healey said Monday that her administration is still in the “early stages” of identifying what went wrong.
Three weeks into her tenure in the corner office, Gov. Maura Healey told business leaders her administration is ready to “do more” to address their pressing concerns and targeted workforce strain, tax relief and health care investment as broad areas of focus.
As the MBTA struggles with service delays and prepares to suspend downtown Orange Line service for three upcoming weekends to work on tracks that were part of last year’s month-long end-to-end shutdown, Gov. Maura Healey said the new general manager she plans to name at the T will be charged with making sure that “these things stop happening.”
As remote work gives some Massachusetts workers the opportunity to move out of state, and high housing costs and transportation woes drive others out, Boston businesses are calling for a statewide housing plan, new MBTA leadership and greater government support for apprenticeship programs.
Massachusetts employers added a modest 6,300 jobs in December as the statewide unemployment rate ticked downward once again, remaining below the national level, labor officials announced Friday.
Mayor Michelle Wu sees “no choice but to try” to revive rent control in Boston despite decades of failure by previous supporters of the policy, driven by high rents in the city.
The MBTA is “not making the sort of progress we really want to see” in its efforts to recruit new bus operators, a top official said Thursday, describing ongoing challenges in one of several areas where staffing shortages have bled into service disruptions.
The share of New England workers doing their jobs remotely has leveled off, according to research presented to a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston last week.
Saying she wants her administration to be known as one “driving economic development,” growth and opportunity, Gov. Maura Healey said she will put a $987 million “immediate needs” bond bill for housing and economic development programs before the legislature soon.
Legal tax avoidance strategies – like structuring transactions in a way that minimizes reported taxable income or curtailing stock trading – could reduce the state’s Millionaires Tax revenue by about $670 million.
Business-minded, small government groups from each New England state think it’s critical to “start working together as a region” to address cost of living issues, high energy prices and economic competitiveness.
Local small businesses saw the dollar amount in holiday sales increase by just more than 1 percent last year over the 2021 holiday shopping season, well shy of the 4 percent annual increase that the Retailers Association of Massachusetts said is typical.
Federal safety officials on Thursday cited and fined Eversource for five workplace safety standards violations stemming from a fatal arc flash and arc blast that occurred this summer outside the State House and McCormack office building.
