Florence R. Payne, (in wheelchair), mother of fallen Boston firefighter Warren J. Payne, weeps after his funeral mass at United House of Prayer For All People, Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, in Boston. Payne, 53, a Newton resident and father of two, was one of two firefighters who lost his life on Aug. 29 when a roof collapsed during a restaurant fire in West Roxbury. (AP photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)
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Report: Job picture in Mass. remains mixed
Dan Devine
Unemployment in Massachusetts last year was higher than the national average for the first time in more than a decade, but the median wage earned by workers in the Commonwealth started to trend upward in 2006, according to a recent report by a nonprofit research group.
In the report, entitled “The State of Working Massachusetts: A Growing Economy; A Growing Divide” and released last week, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MBPC) portrays the Massachusetts employment picture as something of a mixed bag. Full story
DSS policy called biased by minority-owned firms
Howard Manly
A group of minority-owned mental health providers, frustrated by the lack of business provided by the state Department of Social Services (DSS), have charged the agency with a systematic pattern of discrimination that is apparently at odds with the agency’s stated goal of developing community-based organizations and increasing their capacities. Full Story
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