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Need a Job? America’s Smallest Employers Have a Record Share of Openings

December 2, 2023 | WSJ

Available positions at establishments with fewer than 10 workers rose almost 20% in recent months.
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AG seeks consumer protections from ‘junk’ fees

December 1, 2023 | By Christian M. Wade | Statehouse Reporter

BOSTON — The state’s top law enforcement officer is taking aim at “junk” fees for products and services that advocates say are fleecing consumers out of tens of billions of…
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Business Confidence Flat in November

December 1, 2023 | Alexis_

Business confidence remained essentially flat during November amid a softening labor market, cooling wage growth and moderating inflation…. The post Business Confidence Flat in November appeared first on Associated Industries…
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Bucking a trend, some firms have signed major Boston office leases recently

December 1, 2023 | Grant Welker

Boston’s office vacancy stands at its highest rate since the pandemic, yet a number of firms have committed to major office footprints in Boston in the past year.
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New analysis shows how investors have helped push up Boston housing costs

November 30, 2023 | Grant Welker

Investors, who often have the advantage of paying in cash to elbow out the competition, have accounted for a third of purchases in neighborhoods like Chelsea and Lynn in the…
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HAWC receives laptops, funding for internet service for domestic-violence victims

November 29, 2023 | James Jennings

LYNN — The Essex County Community Foundation is partnering with Healing Abuse Working for Change to help survivors of domestic violence. ECCF will provide funding for HAWC to offer free…
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Why landlords hold the post-pandemic fate of downtown in their hands like never before

November 29, 2023 | The Boston Globe

Restaurants and retailers still struggling to meet the terms of leases they signed before COVID are approaching landlords with creative proposals to restructure their monthly rent check. The answers often…
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The capital gap is getting worse for business owners of color

November 28, 2023 | Meera Raman

Business owners of color are struggling to access capital at even higher rates than they were pre-pandemic, according to a new report by The Boston Foundation.
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As GivingTuesday returns, AG issues advisory for the charitable

November 27, 2023 | Matthew Medsger

The event “is driving a net increase in giving” globally, according to organizers.
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