WHEN BOSTON SCHOOL officials and the city’s teachers union announced an agreement last year on extending the K-8 school day by 40 minutes, it was hailed as an important breakthrough that had eluded city leaders for many years. What went largely unnoticed was the fact that the agreement also represented a breakthrough in Massachusetts labor […]
Barry Bluestone
Barry Bluestone is a professor and director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.
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Bluestone, Clayton-Matthews answer life science criticism
STATES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS have, at best, a checkered past in providing public handouts to private industry. In a desperate attempt to retain jobs or attract them, many states, cities, and towns have provided individual companies with tax incentives and property tax rebates – trusting these would make the difference in the location decisions of […]