Dr. Andrew Sum presents the findings of a recent CLMS report

Reports

Declining Teen Employment Prospects in
Massachusetts and the U.S.: The Case for An Immediate Youth Jobs Stimulus Program in the Nation and State

Center for Labor Market Studies

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The Economic, Labor Market, and Fiscal Performance and Impacts of the Biopharmaceutical Industries of Massachusetts Center for Labor Market Studies Complete Set of PhRMA Reports

Mass Economy: The Labor Supply and our Economic Future

Massachusetts Community Colleges Focus of Major New Reports

Commonwealth Magazine article "College Try" by Michael Jonas

Massachusetts Community Colleges
The Potential for Improving College Attainment, Mary M. Lassen
Senior Fellow, The Boston Foundation ....Read Report

Board of Higher Education Final Report from the Task Force on Retention and Completion Rates at the Community Colleges ....Read Report

Higher effort on higher learning
By Thomas M. Menino and Gary Gottlieb February 26, 2007, Boston Globe...

Op-ed                            Letters to Editor in Response

The Projected Summer 2007 Job Outlook for the Nation’s Teens and the Case for a Federally-Funded Summer Jobs Creation Program Prepared by: Andrew Sum, Joseph McLaughlin Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University PDF

Too Big to Be Seen: The Invisible Dropout Crisis in Boston and America, a report from the Boston Youth Transitions Task Force, May 2006 PDF

Dropout Data

An Assessment of the Labor Market, Income, Health, Social, Civic and Fiscal Consequences of Dropping Out of High School:  Findings for Massachusetts Adults in the 21st Century Prepared by:

Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Paulo Tobar, with Jacqui Motroni, Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies Northeastern University, .Boston, Massachusetts  Prepared for:

Boston Youth Transitions Task Force and Boston Private Industry Council Boston, Massachusetts January 2007...PDF

Board of Education releases 2006 Preliminary Graduation Rates: 80 percent of Class of 2006 graduated in four years but many students falling behind

2006 Graduation Rate Report All districts/schools for All Students 4-Year Graduation Rate

Read statewide summary results...

High School Dropouts 2004-05

Massachusetts Public Schools

In the 2004-05 school year, a total of 3.8 percent (11,145 dropouts) of students in grades nine through twelve dropped out. This rate was one-tenth of a percentage point higher than the rate for the 2003-04 school year. Read report...

Center for Labor Market Studies reports.

New England Regional Labor Force Developments and Their Workforce Development Implications presentation by Andy Sum, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University September 2006...  PPT

"The Deterioration in the Labor Market Fortunes of Massachusetts High School Students and Young Dropouts, 2000-2004: Implications for the Connecting Activities and Other Workforce Development Programs to Boost Teen Employment Prospects", Sum, A., Madjarov, K., McLaughlin, J. April 2006 PDF

Foreign immigration and the labor force for Commonwealth Corporation "New Foreign Immigrant Inflows into Massachusetts, 2000-2005: An Assessment Of Their Size, Characteristics, and Impacts on State Population and Labor Force Growth" Sum, A., J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 PDF

"The following reports have been prepared by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University for the Workforce Solutions Group:

"Occupational Employment and Job Vacancy Developments in Massachusetts 2000-2005: Implications for Future Workforce Development Policy" Sum, A., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. April 2006 PDF

"Massachusetts Labor Markets in Mid-2005:
An Assessment of Job Vacancy and Unemployment Developments and Their Implications for Workforce Development Policy", Sum, A., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 PDF

Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development Job Vacancy Survey 4thQuarter2005

"New Foreign Immigrant Inflows into Massachusetts, 2000-2005: An Assessment Of Their Size, Characteristics, and Impacts on State Population and Labor Force Growth" Sum, A., J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 prepared for Commonwealth Corporation PDF

"Massachusetts Labor Markets in Mid-2005: An Assessment of Job Vacancy and Unemployment Developments and Their Implications for Workforce Development Policy", Sum, A., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. February 2006 PDF

"Employment And Job Vacancy Developments Across Industries Of Massachusetts And Local Workforce Development Areas/ Economic Development Districts: Their Implications For Future Job Training And
Workforce Development Initiatives", Sum, ., Mclaughlin, J., Tobar, P., Khatiwada I., and Palma, S. December 2005 PDF

"Wage And Salary Employment Trends In Massachusetts, 1982-2005: Findings On Recent Job Growth And Decline Across Industrial Sectors And Geographic Areas Of The State, 2001-2005," Sum, A. November 2005 PDF

"Recent Trends in the Levels Distribution and Adequacy Of the Annual Earnings of Massachusetts Workers: Implications for the Boston Workforce Development Initiative", Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., and Palma, S, November 2004... PDF

"A Commonwealtrh Growing Apart: Family Income in Massachusetts: , Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., Palma, S., Tobar, P. September 2004 PDF

This report looks at changes in the economic well-being of families in various regions of Massachusetts, examining differences in the levels and growth rates of real median family in comes in a wide array of substate areas over the 1990s and, in some cases, the 1980s.

"Treading Water in Quicksand: A Look at Poverty, Income Inadequacy and Self Sufficiency in Massachusetts", Sum, A., Fogg, N., Khatiwada, I., Peron, S. and Palma, S. September 2004 PDF

This report analyzes the extent of in come inadequacy challenges among Massachusetts families at the end of the 1990s with updates through 2003. Three alternative measures of family in come inadequacy were used in this study: 1) the poverty in come thresholds of the federal government; 2) a measure of the low in come status of families as re presented by 200 per cent of the existing poverty in come thresholds; and 3) the Family Economic Self Sufficiency (FESS) standard of The Women's Union and Wider Opportunities for Women.

"Family Income Developments in Massachusetts During the 1990s: Mediocre Growth for the Average Family Amidst Sharply Rising Income Inequality, Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., Trubs'kky, M., and Palma, S., January 2004... PDF

Changes in the Economic Well Being of Families in Substate Areas of Massachusetts:
Implications for the Future Targetting of Economic Development and Workforce Development Programs, Sum, A., Khatiwada, I., Palma, S., and Tobar, P., June, 2004... PDF

Labor Market Problems in Massachusetts From the End of the Labor Market Boom in
2000 Through 2003, Khatiwada, I., Sum, A., and Palma, S., April 2004... PDF

Workers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are in trouble. Between 2000 and 2003, the Commonwealth lost 4.1% of its payroll jobs, a rate three-and-one-half times higher than the national average. This gave Massachusetts the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of job loss with a decline of 215,000 or 6.4%. Even as much of the country experiences an economic recovery, Massachusetts has yet to add any new net wage and salary jobs since last fall. In the last three years, all Massachusetts workers (especially those with no post-secondary education), have struggled to keep their jobs, and those unemployed have found their periods of unemployment stretching longer.