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The Benchmarks Bulletin
Latest Issue of MassBenchmarks Released
The current analysis of the Massachusetts economy and its regional economic conditions is featured in the new issue of MassBenchmarks. It is now available on our Web site at www.massbenchmarks.org.

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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:

Economic Currents:
Politics and Globalization — Uncertainty and its Economic Discontents

Michael Goodman and Robert Nakosteen

Double-Jeopardy: Low-wage and Low-income Workers in Massachusetts, 1980–2009
Randy Albelda and Michael Carr

Endnotes: Going Beyond the Unemployment Statistics — The Case for Multiple Measures of Labor Utilization
Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiawada


For more information, please contact:

Dr. Alan Clayton-Matthews
Senior Contributing Editor, MassBenchmarks
Associate Professor of Economics
and Public Policy
School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Northeastern University
(617) 373-2909
alan.clayton-matthews@comcast.net

Dr. Michael Goodman
Editor, MassBenchmarks
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Chair
Department of Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
(617) 823-2770
mgoodman@umassd.edu

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MassBenchmarks Regional Analysts

ECONOMIC INDICES
Associate Professor Alan Clayton-Matthews,
Northeastern University
(617) 373-2909

BERKSHIRE/PIONEER VALLEY
Professor Robert Nakosteen, UMass Amherst
(413) 545-5687

CENTRAL
Professor John Mullin, UMass Amherst
(413) 545-5271

GREATER BOSTON
Professor David Terkla, UMass Boston
(617) 287-6952

NORTHEAST
Professor Robert Forrant, UMass Lowell
(978) 934-2722

SOUTHEAST/CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
Professor Clyde Barrow, UMass Dartmouth
(508) 999-9265



For timely and comprehensive analysis of the Massachusetts economy, please visit MassBenchmarks at www.massbenchmarks.org