The workforce shortage that has left employers across sectors scrambling to keep operations running in recent years isn’t likely to let up “any time, in the rest of anybody’s lifetime,” one of the nation’s leading economists said Thursday.
If Massachusetts politicians want to take truly meaningful steps towards making the state more attractive and more livable, they should start beating feet towards efforts to expand pipelines into the building trades.
Gov. Maura Healey continued Wednesday to focus on the spending side of her annual state budget, visiting a community college in Charlestown to promote her plan to have taxpayers cover the cost of community college for any resident 25 or older without a college degree or equivalent industry credential.
One of the first questions buyers ask these days is: How far over the asking price should I go to get the house I want? Obviously, it all depends.
