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

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   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 that businesses are informed of all employment laws impacting them and their employees, providing temporary assistance when employment is interrupted ...

3. History of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   The area that is now Massachusetts was colonized by English settlers in the early 17th century and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century. Before that, it was inhabited by a variety of Native American tribes. Massachusetts is named after the Massachusett tribe that inhabited the area of present-day Greater Boston.

4. Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Wikipedia

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   Massachusetts Department of Public Health. 1869 Chap. 0420. An Act To Establish A State Board Of Health. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is a governmental agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with various responsibilities related to public health within that state. It is headquartered in Boston and headed by Commissioner ...

5. List of law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 357 law enforcement agencies employing 18,342 sworn police officers, about 280 for each 100,000 residents.

6. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Seal of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   An official emblem of the state, the coat of arms was adopted by the Legislature in 1775 and then reaffirmed by Governor John Hancock and his Council in 1780. The present rendition of the seal was drawn by resident-artist Edmund H. Garrett and was adopted by the state in 1900. [2] While the inscription around the seal is officially in Latin, a ...