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🔒Viewpoint: Health inequities are a $6B economic problem

The first question for health foundations: What is causing racial disparities and inequities in health?

🔒A Thousand Words: Cannabis dispensary closures

Multistate operator Trulieve is closing three cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts, including in Worcester and Framingham.

🔒Viewpoint: Small businesses remain bullish for 2023

Despite economic headwinds, small business owners in Worcester and elsewhere are confident in their abilities to manage their businesses through difficult times.

🔒Viewpoint: Why UMass Memorial needs to close maternity services in Leominster

Maternity care is highly specialized and requires continuous and consistent coverage. The advanced nature of these services, combined with existing labor shortages and the steadily declining number of births at the hospital, has heightened the difficulties of staffing this unit.
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🔒A Thousand Words: Mass. GDP growth slowing

Growth of the Massachusetts GDP is slowing, causing anxiety across industries.

🔒Viewpoint: The benefits of a four-day workweek

Our U.S. work environment desperately needs a makeover. Although there is no magic pill, one potential solution is a four-day workweek.

Letter to the Editor: Andrew Zimbalist responds to Polar Park article

Andrew Zimbalist, the economics professor at Smith College in Northampton who served as a consultant for the City of Worcester in the Polar Park baseball stadium, wrote this letter in response to a WBJ article about an academic study critical of the economics behind Polar Park.

🔒Viewpoint: Tax code is stifling R&D

The New England Council firmly believes the new R&D amortization requirement will halt and harm our region’s continued growth and leadership on the global stage.
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🔒A Thousand Words: Community Healthlink closures

A state inspection of three Community Healthlink substance abuse programs led to their suspension and a halt of new admissions. Eighty layoffs are anticipated and the Worcester organization’s president is leaving her role.

🔒A Thousand Words: Downtown Worcester development

Developers in Worcester rushed to file plans with the Worcester Planning Board before the implementation of Inclusionary Zoning. The planning board has been very receptive to plans for multifamily residential developments in Worcester.
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