New Skills for a New Economy

Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Sheila Palma, John Comings, Johan Uvin, W. Neal Fogg, Maricel Santos and Lisa Soricone
According to this new groundbreaking report from MassINC, more than a third (1.1 million) of Massachusetts’s 3.2 million workers are ill equipped to meet the demands of the state’s rapidly changing economy. This threatens the state’s ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance. read more
Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy, Research

The Changing Workforce

Immigrants and the New Economy in Massachusetts

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Neeta Fogg, W. Neal Fogg, Julia Kroshko, Sheila Palma, Paul Suozzo and Christopher Harrington
The Massachusetts economy may be booming, but have you ever wondered where local companies, large and small, are finding their new employees? The answer will surprise you. The Changing Workforce, a joint research project of MassINC and Citizens Bank, discovered that since the mid-1980s foreign immigrants, not native-born workers, account for an astounding 82 percent read more
Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Research

Criminal Justice in Massachusetts

The Public's View

MassINC
MassINC’s report Criminal Justice in Massachusetts: Putting Crime Control First, posed a simple question: “What policies would reduce crime?” For answers, we turned to nationally recognized crime policy expert Mark Kleiman of UCLA (formerly of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government) and his colleagues at BOTEC Analysis Corporation. The report offered a comprehensive read more
Topic(s): Criminal Justice, Public Opinion, Research

The State of the American Dream in New England

Andy Sum, Neeta Fogg, W. Neal Fogg and Paul Harrington
MassINC’s first policy report asked the region’s best labor market economists one simple question: what has happened to families in New England economically over the past 15 years? Their answers provide reams of useful information for any candidate for office. Want to know the median family income in Massachusetts in 1979, 1989 and 1996? Want read more
Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Strong Communities, Economic Development, Research
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