The Education Working Group encourages the establishment of a regional workforce partnership that prioritizes skill-building for lower-skilled, low-income workers.
While crime has decreased in Brockton, we continue to struggle with youth violence that is destroying families, tarnishing our image, and scaring off investors. Whether it's after-school programming for our teens, proven re-entry programs and ...
While the quality of life in Brockton is diminished by health and economic disparities across the board—from a high number of Brownfields to polluting industries—we are also challenged by an increasing number of residents and business owner...
The worst economic recession in our lives may be turning but it is unquestionably fueled by a mortgage crisis created by unscrupulous, predatory lenders.
Both the short-lived and unregulated mortgage industry and the increasingly unmonitored fina...
To close the gaping hole in Wisconsin’s state budget, Gov. Scott Walker decided to pick a fight.
“With whom?” you ask.
Well, it’s not with corporations that ship jobs overseas. Nor is it with the state’s wealth...
I know something about schools. I have a master’s degree in education from Boston University. I also started seven small high schools across the country, based on a model lauded as “an education stimulus for the nation’s cities&rdquo...
Across the country, local political leaders are doing the right things to put their cities back to work. As a development strategy, they’re using their public resources to dissect President Obama’s nearly trillion-dollar recovery package to...
