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		<title>Mass. House Orders Staff, Not Member, Furloughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House leaders are ordering their staff members to take five furlough days, although lawmakers won't have to take them themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Looks To Reduce Professor Ranks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors to help balance a $110 million deficit.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Underemployment&#8217; Lurks In New Mass. Jobless Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beneath the positive news that the Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month lurks a very troubling figure that is not getting better: the number of the underemployed. Those are people who are working part-time, only because they can’t find full-time work.]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Unemployment Fund Running Out Of Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MONICA BRADY-MYEROV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though the state's unemployment has dropped for the first time in more than two years, there is a looming problem with the fund used to pay unemployment benefits. It’s about to run out of money.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Foreclosures Keep Rising, Despite Shadows Of Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KATHLEEN MCNERNEY</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreclosures across Massachusetts jumped nearly 30 percent from September to October, although the total number was down slightly from a year ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Unemployment Drops For First Time In 2 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bucking the national trend, the state jobless rate in October dropped to 8.9 percent, down from 9.3 percent in September. But Massachusetts actually lost jobs in October -- 900 in all.   ]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Banks Say They&#8217;re Paying For Others&#8217; Sins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts banks say their bottom lines are being hurt by higher fees they have to pay to insure customer deposits.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Plymouth Hits Bumps On Road To &#8216;Hollywood East&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ANDREA SHEA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials in Plymouth will meet with executives from Plymouth Rock Studios on Tuesday night after major financing fell through on the long-planned development project.]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Floats Loan Plan For Unemployed Homeowners</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/16/frank-loan-plan</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Barney Frank said Monday he is pushing a proposal to use some of the interest the government collects from the financial industry bailout to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay the mortgage.]]></description>
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		<title>Genzyme Shifts Production Abroad After Allston Contamination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration has said it will not approve Genzyme’s new drug, Lumizyme, until contamination of vials at the company’s Allston facility is fixed. ]]></description>
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		<title>Forecast: Winter Heating Costs Steady</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/16/fuel-forecast</link>
		<comments>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/16/fuel-forecast#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the recession, Massachusetts residents should not see any major increases in the price of heating their homes this winter.]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Finds Bits Of Steel, Rubber In Genzyme Drugs</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/13/genzyme-drug-contamination</link>
		<comments>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/13/genzyme-drug-contamination#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ABIGAIL BESHKIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials with the Food and Drug Administration said bits of steel, rubber and fiber have been found in drugs made by Cambridge-based biotechnology company Genzyme.]]></description>
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		<title>Jobless Claims Fall More Than Expected To 502K</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/12/economy-8</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New claims for unemployment insurance fell more than expected last week, evidence the job market is slowly healing as the economy recovers.]]></description>
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		<title>In This Economy, Even The Upswing Doesn&#8217;t Feel So Good</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/10/new-england-economy</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the region’s leading economists convened in Boston on Tuesday to give their assessment of the recovery. They say that, while the regional economy is technically getting better, it won’t feel like that for a good while. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Hedge Fund Manager Arrested In National Insider Trading Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Massachusetts hedge fund manager has been arrested in the huge Galleon insider trading case, and more local businesspeople could still be charged in the alleged scheme. ]]></description>
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		<title>Evergreen To China Shows It&#8217;s Not So Easy To Be Green In Mass.</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/06/evergreen-solar-jobs</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts is profiting from its competitive technical prowess. But the news that Evergreen Solar is moving production jobs to China is a reminder that the manufacturing future for green energy is difficult.]]></description>
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		<title>Jobless Rate Tops 10 Percent For First Time Since &#8216;83</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/06/economy-7</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labor Department says the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. It's the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Commission Ruling Means Delay For Cape Wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/05/cape-wind-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation's first offshore wind farm faces more delay after a Massachusetts official said two Indian tribes' claim to Nantucket Sound needed more study.]]></description>
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		<title>Evergreen Solar To Move Jobs To China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FRANNIE CARR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evergreen Solar is shifting some of its manufacturing production from Massachusetts to China after posting an $82 million loss in the third quarter. 
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		<title>Businesses Wrestle Swine Flu Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/05/sick-economy</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CURT NICKISCH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businesses are wrestling with the threat of H1N1 swine flu, worried that if too many employees get sick at once, the company could be brought to a standstill. But a researcher at MIT says it unlikely that their worst fears will be realized.]]></description>
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