the Fiscal Cliff and upcoming Debt Reduction negotiations may be the biggest obstacle remaining in the path of a sustained real estate recovery. At stake are anywhere from 50,000 – 70,000 jobs in Massachusetts if the current slate of proposed budget cuts pass — to defense...
theTax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017is set to pass with President Trump’s signature before Christmas. (Updated: President Trump signed the bill into law on Dec. 22). Everyone is asking me the same question. How will the biggest change in US tax policy in 30 years affect the Massachusetts...
This law was adopted without any public transparency and must be repealed in the interest of protecting children and ensuring that law enforcement officers are able to do their jobs without fear of criminal repercussions."In a copy of the resolution passed by the Seaside Heights Council, obtained...
Supreme Court ruled in favor of Justice Reynolds, a teacher at Zion Parochial School who had been teaching German to a 10-year-old student, claiming it was an invasion of the 14th Amendment. [Pictured: Justices of the Supreme Court (and others) in 1923, Chief Justice Taft is front and ...
First, and most innocently, the highly skilled people who work in these cities produce more value than those who don't. Clever, productive people tend to get jobs in the superstar cities. But it's also the case that people who work in these cities become more creative and more productive...
CRITERIA AND PUBLICATION: The prize will be awarded to the student work that, in the judgment of ELI, ABA-SEER, and NAELS, best informs the debate on a current topic of constitutional environmental law and advances the state of scholarship. ELI reserves the right to ...
There are laws in the United States that give women the same opportunity as men to go to college and get jobs. As a result, women today are working in professions that were not as open to them 30 or 40 years ago. To give just one example, today more than half the students in ...
They have steep levels of mortgage debt, auto debt, and even student-loan debt, some of which is surely the result of co-signing on their children's or grand-children's borrowing. Seniors worked for their Social Security benefits, they earned their benefits, and those benefits should remain...