BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New England Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 14, 2021, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Boston-Cambridge-Newton - March 2021": Prices in the Boston area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 0.9 percent for the two months ending in March 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table) Regional Commissione  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following white paper (No. 2021-025) on April 14, 2021, entitled "Labor Market Effects of the Oxycodone-Heroin Epidemic": * * * This white paper was co-authored by David Cho and Daniel I. Garcia, economists in the household and business spending section of the Research and Statistics Department, Joshua Montes, senior economist in the labor markets section of the Research and Statistics Department and Alison Weingarden. Here are excerpts:   more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $46,669,040 to the Vermont Agency of Human Services for the state's Hotel/Motel Vouchers Program for individuals who were high risk populations and required non-congregate medical sheltering. The approved participants in the state program were able to stay in hotels and motels statewide. Funding for this p  more

EAST BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 15 -- The Massachusetts Port Authority issued the following news: The multi-year effort by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) to modernize and expand Conley Container Terminal marks a major milestone - three new low profile Neo-Panamax cranes have begun their journey to Boston on a ship from Shanghai, China. The cranes will arrive at Conley Terminal this summer and will be operational this fall. These cranes, along with a new berth and a deepened Bosto  more

AMHERST, Massachusetts, April 15 (TNSOps) -- The University of Massachusetts-Amherst issued the following news on April 14, 2021: The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted today to approve UMass President Marty Meehan's proposal to freeze tuition for all in-state undergraduate and graduate students at UMass Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell in the 2021-22 academic year. The vote marks the second consecutive year of tuition and mandatory fee freezes at UMass for in-state under  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 15 -- The University of Massachusetts System issued the following news release: The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted today to approve UMass President Marty Meehan's proposal to freeze tuition for all in-state undergraduate and graduate students at UMass Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell in the 2021-2022 academic year. The vote marks the second consecutive year of tuition and mandatory fee freezes at UMass for in-state undergraduate and gradua  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 15 -- The University of Massachusetts System issued the following news release: The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees voted today to launch a search for a new permanent chancellor for UMass Dartmouth by creating a 19-member search committee. The Search Committee includes UMass Dartmouth faculty, students, alumni and staff, along with highly respected community representatives and members of the UMass Board of Trustees. UMass Trustee and South Coast busi  more

DUNEDIN, New Zealand, April 14 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Otago issued the following news release: Professor Michael Baker MNZM, from the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington has won the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize. Professor Baker has been New Zealand's 'go-to' science expert on COVID-19 since the earliest days of the pandemic, racking up more than 2,000 media interviews since January 2020. He has been a Professor of Public Health at the  more