Economy

Restaurateurs and other small business owners are wary of a looming "threat" of a 2024 ballot question that could raise the state's minimum wage beyond the $15 hourly rate that took effect in January.

Dignity Hospice Care in Framingham has been acquired by Art Kalenjian, the CEO of Advanced Home Care, a Massachusetts-based senior care provider.

Living in Freedom Together, a Worcester nonprofit organization aiming to end the sex trade, is no longer led by its founder, Nicole Bell.

Metro regions across Central Massachusetts experienced lower unemployment again in April after a drop in March.

Cannabis regulators voted Monday to overhaul their approach toward rolling out social consumption locations, sometimes referred to as marijuana cafes, that voters embraced in the 2016 ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana use.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in April fell slightly for the second month in a row, according to the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Massachusetts squeaked out a smidgen of economic growth in the first quarter of 2023, slowing substantially from its late 2022 growth rate, and analysts are predicting GDP declines in the second and third quarters.

A new white paper report from the Massachusetts Nurses Association labor union using Occupational Safety & Health Administration data shows the rate of illness and injury to healthcare workers increased substantially during the coronavirus pandemic, and the study makes the claim that workers in the healthcare field were the most harmed in 2020.

Community Harvest Project’s food donations have become more critical than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they remain so now as pandemic emergency declaration-related federal and state emergency allotments end and the costs of food continue to rise.

The business confidence index ticked lower for the second month in a row among businesses in Central Massachusetts, falling 1.4 points to a score of 50.3, nearing pessimistic territory on the region’s economy.