Economy

Senior care and health workforce advocates say increased pay for care workers included in a priority bill on Beacon Hill would help address the staffing shortages that have plagued the state's nursing homes in recent years and led to a decline in quality of care.

One housing advocate made it clear to lawmakers on Monday: without a pandemic-era policy pausing eviction cases while an application for aid is pending, "people would have been on the street."

Massachusetts had one of the lowest rates of wealthy residents decamping for other states in the 2010s, according to a new report from a left-leaning think tank that argued it would be misguided to pursue tax cuts for wealthier households to stem a non-existent exodus.

Keeping in place a pandemic-era policy that gave physician assistants greater workplace and supervisory flexibility would help Massachusetts navigate a spiraling health care workforce crisis, its legislative sponsor said Thursday.

Unemployment rates continue an upwards tick across Central Massachusetts communities, with February unemployment a couple tenths of a percent higher than in January in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state.

An estimated 3,000 jobs were gained across the state in February, as compared to January’s revised gain of 8,900 jobs, according to a Friday press release from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Management.

Facing a "substantial increase" in people being robbed of their public benefits by fraudsters and scammers, Acting...

Lavalley, the executive director, is in his 19th year in charge and trying to keep the nonprofit’s legacy alive while it continues to transform to something new in its post-COVID existence.

New workforce data and industry leaders in Central Massachusetts suggest any inkling that people wouldn’t travel or meet at the same rates as they did before COVID appears to be unfounded.

New polling suggests statewide support for another minimum wage hike and as lawmakers weigh a push to raise the wage floor.