WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. BerkShares - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerkShares

    BerkShares is a local currency that circulates in The Berkshires region of Massachusetts. It was launched on September 29, 2006 [1] by BerkShares Inc., with research and development assistance from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. The BerkShares website lists around 400 businesses in Berkshire County that accept the currency.

  3. List of community currencies in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community...

    US Money and BE Dollars Lafayette, Louisiana; Crescents (Started: 2004) New Orleans; Maine. Waldo Hours Unity, Maine (Inactive) Maryland. Anacostia Hours Mount Rainier, Maryland (Inactive) Baltimore Hours Baltimore, Maryland (Inactive) P.E.N. Neighborhood Exchange Takoma Park, Maryland (Inactive) The BNote Baltimore, Maryland; Massachusetts

  4. Massachusetts Development Finance Agency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Development...

    The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (MassDevelopment) was created in 1998 under Chapter 23G of the Massachusetts General Laws, [1] which merged the Massachusetts Government Land Bank with the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency. Both a lender and developer, MassDevelopment works with businesses, nonprofits, financial institutions ...

  5. Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Executive...

    Leadership. The current Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development is Lauren Jones, who was appointed by Governor Maura Healey in January 2023.. Mission. The EOLWD missions is to enhance the quality, diversity and stability of Massachusetts' workforce by making available new opportunities and training, protecting the rights of workers, preventing workplace injuries and illnesses, ensuring ...

  6. Massachusetts governor leans into the skills-based hiring ...

    www.aol.com/finance/massachusetts-governor-leans...

    On Thursday, Gov. Maura Healey (D-Mass.) signed an executive order to eliminate “unnecessary” degree requirements from most state job listings. Announcing the change in a speech at the Boston ...

  7. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_the...

    The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.

  8. Early American currency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency

    A fifty-five dollar Continental issued in 1779. After the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, the Continental Congress began issuing paper money known as Continental currency, or Continentals. Continental currency was denominated in dollars from $ to $80, including many odd denominations in between.

  9. Exchange Place (Boston) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_Place_(Boston)

    Exchange Place (Boston) / 42.35832; -71.05645. Exchange Place is a modern skyscraper located at the block of 43–53 State Street or 1 Exchange Place, between Congress and Kilby Streets, in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1981–1985, it is tied for Boston's 17th tallest building, standing 510 feet (155 m) tall, and ...