Economy

Massachusetts’ business confidence was once again on the decline in September.

Riverdale Mills CEO Jim Knott Jr. sat down with WBJ to explain, whatever their intent, Trump’s tariffs are making business more difficult for this 45-year-old firm.

Sixteen years after joining The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts as its president and CEO,...

Legacy Transport delivers more than 1.8 million pounds of food each year to more than 7,000 monthly households.

Gould will retire from Advocates on July 1, at which point she will have led the organization for 13 years.

Massachusetts AFL-CIO, the Climate Jobs Massachusetts Action coalition and a handful of individual locals were among those who voiced support for a bill (H 3476 / S 2275) that would require energy and air quality audits for public schools, universities and colleges.

Unemployment held steady or decreased in August throughout Central Massachusetts as the region experiences vacillating employment trajectories that change direction on a monthly basis.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts remained unchanged in August for the fourth month in a row while still higher than the nation’s average for the ninth consecutive month. 

Deegan joins the firm from Altra Industrial Motion, a Braintree-based manufacturer of power transmissions.

Equity work has never been easy, and its often uphill battle has been compounded by the President Donald Trump Administration’s crusade to uproot DEI.