A nationwide delegation of municipal leaders and worker-cooperative experts visited Boston in late March to learn about the city’s exploration of worker-owned companies as a strategy for fighting economic inequality. Worker-owned companies are for-profit enterprises in which employees own a
Before a room of people interested in economic fairness, John Hickey shared how his family strove from disadvantage to stability. In the 1950s, he said, his Irish immigrant parents were able to buy a house in the city and raise five kids
A new labor report commissioned by the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development (OWD) shows that while the city is enjoying an economic boom, many residents have been unable to share in that prosperity. Although Boston’s unemployment rate has dipped to a