Rachel McNeill is one of 141 people arrested on October 11 when Occupy Boston briefly expand its encampment. This soft-spoken...
This week, the fourth since setting up camp on September 30, Occupy Boston has increased its visibility through a series...
Earlier this month, 85 year old Joan Prum took a stroll down “Main Street,” a precarious pathway of pallets and...
Editor’s note: Blast writer John Stephen Dwyer has been staying with Occupy Boston protesters since the beginning of the protest....
Yesterday, thousands of people swelled the ranks of Occupy Boston in a march that began at the Boston Common and...
Profiling the movement
Bank of America plans to cut 3,500 jobs company-wide in the current quarter in an effort to cut expenses. This...
Central Falls, R.I. is declaring bankruptcy and claims “the current situation is dire,” according to state officials. “Despite its proud...
The Irish emigrated during the Great Famine of 1845 and then during the recession in the 1980s. Now, many Irish are again searching for hope abroad
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The Great Recession has had many repercussions, but the biggest may have been unemployment. Luckily, Waltham-based ZoomInfo’s FreshContacts is the...
The G8 operates under the guise of real leadership, when really the summit has become nothing more than a glorified vacation for the world's most powerful leaders. But as we've seen in the past and present, power does not equal intelligence.
President Obama ordered treasury secretary Timothy Geithner Monday to take all legal action needed to stop the payment of nearly $165 million in bonuses handed out by AIG to its executives, according to IHT.
If one was to judge by the calendar alone, the 21st century started eight years ago this week. Although, when...
Santa Claus is feeling the sting from of the economic crisis and says if he does not get help from the the U.S. Government, Christmas, which accounts for about 25 percent of all retail spending, may not be able to survive.
While Americans hope President-elect Barack Obama can live up to almost two years of hype, citizens around the world are hoping some of that “change†spills out in their direction.
The speculation over who will serve in the Obama administration continues at a fever pitch. Some early media reports suggest...
They debated, for the second time, their positions on the economy, health care and energy independence, as well as a host of other issues affecting Americans all over the country.