WBUR Poll Finds 8 In 10 Bostonians Say Racism Is A Significant Problem wbur.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbur.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Old ways of working and living will give way to a ‘polycentric’ region.
By Jeff Howe
Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe
There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy.
Amara’s Law goes a long way toward explaining our current moment. Futurists have been pronouncing the coming ascendancy of “telecommuting,” as it was quaintly called in the age of “Web logs” and CD-ROMs, since the early 1980s. But just because we could didn’t mean we would, and for decades the number of remote workers remained marginal. Human behavior, not technology, ultimately determines the impact of any given innovation. In 2019, according to a study by the Pew Research Center, on
April 15, 2021
Thanks to major funding from The Boston Foundation and from our media partners at WBUR 90.9FM, this week the Dorchester Reporter is pleased to present the results of the year’s first poll focused on the election of Boston’s next mayor. The poll, conducted by the excellent Mass Inc Polling Group, was in the field over four days last week, shortly after Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced that she would seek a full four-year term making it a six-person field of candidates.
The poll, which surveyed 552 registered voters who are Boston residents on landlines and cell phones in English and Spanish languages also sought to gauge the electorate’s interest in issues. The poll’s margin of error is +/- 4.9 percent with a 95 percent level of confidence.
Election roundup: Baker to run again in Dorchester; Wu talks BPS reinvention universalhub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from universalhub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cambridge to begin guaranteed income program for poor families
120 single-parent households would receive $500 a month with no strings attached.
By Shirley Leung Globe Columnist,Updated April 15, 2021, 1 hour ago
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A woman walks by the Washington Elms Housing Development in Cambridge, which sits next to high-rise towers in Kendall Square.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
Cambridge is set to become the second city in Massachusetts to give out no-strings-attached money to its poorest residents in an 18-month pilot program that will begin in August.
Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui is announcing Thursday that the city, through a public-private partnership, has raised $1.5 million for an initiative that gives out $500 a month to 120 households headed by a lone caretaker, such as a single mother. Last November the city of Chelsea launched a similar program for about 2,000 low-income families in what is considered the countryâs biggest experiment of the guaranteed income idea.