Economy

Fourteen states and 19 local authorities have delayed or canceled road, transit and airport projects worth $8.58 billion due to the coronavirus.

Northwest suburban Chicago-based Northwest Community Healthcare is joining the NorthShore University which operates five hospitals in the northern sububs and Chicago.

While claims are dropping slowly, levels remain higher than before the pandemic and could go up, according to analysts.

Organizers say the goal is for for technologies to make public transit safer, cleaner and more adaptive.

Conditions under a recently announced temporary exemption are narrow, SEC staff said, despite push back from dealers.

Federal funding will cover the replacement of the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, with ownership to transfer to the Massachusetts DOT upon completion.

While the worst of the predictions failed to materialize — unemployment never hit the levels expected and most numbers started improving after a month or two — a second wave of the virus could take another bite out of the economy.

Our third monthly survey found almost six out of 10 employers report that their plans for the return to work are stymied by uncertainty — specifically, a lack of clarity on the right timing, and persistent questions about how to provide a safe environment for their employees.

They contribute more than $77 billion annually, or 9.4% of city economic output, according to the city comptroller.

Economic activity in parts of the U.S. is showing signs of leveling off amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic.

Transportation officials have spent nearly six years on a Massachusetts Turnpike redesign and an infrastructure merge called the "throat." Time is running short.

Two Federal Reserve presidents said the central bank is committed to fighting racism as an economic issue.

The bipartisan Modernizing Agricultural and Manufacturing Bonds Act would expand the small issue manufacturing bonds and first-time farmer bonds programs.

The shortfall underscored advocates' calls to provide more dedicated funding to the statewide transit provider.

Days before the SEC's regulation best interest goes into place, the SEC approved corresponding changes to muni securities rules.

Federal relief and the resumption of elective surgeries helped bolster hospital margins in May, according to a Kaufman Hall report.

Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., said the SEC's temporary relief for MAs to facilitate some private placement deals without registering as a broker-dealer should not have been created through exemptive relief.

The mass transit agency is staring at a prolonged fiscal calamity with further federal support at a standstill and its $51.5 billion capital program in jeopardy.

Recurring coronavirus outbreaks will probably hold back U.S. economic growth and leave unemployment at elevated levels in the coming years, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said.

With states opening back up, economists look at the recovery and how another wave of coronavirus would affect the economy.