Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in nearly 2 1/2 years as the job market was spurred by expansion in the science, health and business services sectors.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in nearly 2 1/2 years as the job market was spurred by expansion in the science, health and business services sectors.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Massachusetts' monthly unemployment rate has fallen for the first time in nearly 2 1/2 years and just one month after hitting the highest level since 1976.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It’s 10 o’clock on a Monday morning and about 100 solemn-faced people crowd into a gray-walled waiting room in an old brick building hard by the railroad tracks in Lawrence. The group is nearly silent and the faces are glum and filled with tension. The room could serve as the epicenter for unemployment in Massachusetts. In Lawrence the rate has ...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 9.3 percent in September, reaching its highest level since 1976.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 9.3 percent in September, reaching its highest level since 1976.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
By News staff BOSTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 9.3 percent in September, as the state lost another 9,200 jobs. The jobless rate in Massachusetts remains a half point lower than the national average, which rose to 9.8 percent last month. The state rate was 9.1 percent in August. The state office of Labor and Workforce Development says employment fell in several sectors of...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 9.3 percent in September, as the state lost another 9,200 jobs.
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
"We're in the second year of a major recession. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Our 401Ks and retirement plans have plummeted in value. Businesses have closed and are continuing to close. We have all seen examples throughout this state and certainly throughout the country. Here in Massachusetts, as the unemployment rate rises toward double digits, the response of the Governor and the...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
The Massachusetts unemployment rate rose to 8.8 percent in July from 8.6 percent the previous month, as the state lost 2,800 jobs during the month.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
By News staff BOSTON, Mass. -- A Providence man was arraigned Tuesday in Massachusetts on charges he schemed to collect $18,500 in unemployment benefits from that state while still working. Christian Waldron, 38, pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court to 29 counts of unemployment fraud and larceny over $250. According to authorities, Waldron applied collected unemployment benefits from July 2007...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
By Maria Armental BOSTON -- A Providence man was arraigned Tuesday in Massachusetts on charges he schemed to collect $18,500 in unemployment benefits from that state while still working. Christian Waldron, 38, pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court to 29 counts of unemployment fraud and larceny over $250. According to authorities, Waldron applied collected unemployment benefits from July 2007...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose to 8.6 percent in June, as employers and workers struggled with the ongoing recession.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
BOSTON -- A Rhode Island man who worked as a security supervisor in Massachusetts was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on charges he schemed to collect more than $15,000 in unemployment benefits while continuing to work. Robert S. Johnson, 41, of North Smithfield, is charged with 27 counts of unemployment fraud and larceny over $250. After being laid off from his job as a security supervisor at Beth Israel...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
BOSTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate in Massachusetts climbed to 8.2 percent in May even as the state added 4,900 jobs - the first increase in jobs in a year. Meanwhile, in Rhode Island, the unemployment rate surpassed 12 percent in May, Governor Carcieri said this morning at the annual meeting of the Governor's Workforce Board. In Massachusetts, the biggest jobs increase came in the professional,...
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