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Governor Healey releases tax relief plan to lower Massachusetts cost of living

Anna Rubenstein March 3, 2023
Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll released a $742 million tax relief package to the Commonwealth on Feb. 27.
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Public infrastructure is more important than it seems

Editors September 14, 2021
It is worth asking how many accidents it will take for any significant progress to be made in public infrastructure?
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White Massachusetts residents more than twice as likely to own a business than Black, Latinx residents

Anna Stjernquist March 31, 2021
Less than half a percent of Boston’s 2014-2019 contract spending went to Black-owned business.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Modern Toolbox: Cryptocurrency is the future

Jaeyoung Choi February 24, 2021
Cryptocurrency is set to change the world, for better or worse. If you want to be part of the biggest financial revolution since the creation of the International Monetary Fund in 1945, the time is now.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Skate on the Paradigm: The CO2-shaped elephant in the room

Andre Salkin October 22, 2020
Climate change’s inevitable impacts on Earth will have catastrophic socio-political repercussions, which will threaten the very fabric of organized human civilization.
Andre Salkin

Skate On The Paradigm: Most jobs are bulls—

Andre Salkin September 21, 2020
As predicted by Keynes, productive jobs — those that actually produce wealth — have been significantly overtaken by automatic beings.
A PitchBook study, reported by Fortune, has found that Boston University ranks third for universities whose female undergraduate alumni's companies have made the most capital. GRAPHIC BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU female alumni-founded companies recognized for financial achievement

Sophia Eppolito September 30, 2015

Companies owned by female Boston University alums accumulated a total of $315.9 million over the past five years, according to this year's edition of PitchBook’s Universities Report. BU placed third...

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