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BOSTON - Marco Angelone moved to Boston from Italy about seven years ago. In his country, it is not part of the culture to tip a waiter or waitress. The server’s wage covers his or her labor. In the United States, he has discovered, that is not true.

Angelone, 27, lives in Jamaica Plain and has worked in the restaurant industry for a little over two years now. He is a back server, which means he splits tips with the waiters and waitresses working in the dining room. This year, his wage went up to $3 per hour, from the $2.63 it had been when he got his first job.

Somerville, Mass. – The Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) that will be negotiated between City Hall and Union Square developer US2 runs the risk of being less than effective in delivering advantages to city residents, according to studies, critics and to a Tufts university professor familiar with CBAs.

BOSTON – A peaceful but determined group of approximately one thousand marchers took to the streets of Boston on Martin Luther King Day to call for an end to police brutality, a redirection of public funds from prisons to schools, and a living wage for all workers, among other demands.

Noting that demonstrators were all wearing hats, gloves and heavy coats, and emphasizing the importance of remembering history, organizer Brock Satter referred to the new anti-racism movement as “freedom winter.”

BOSTON - Massachusetts incarcerates a higher portion of its population than nearly every country in the world. In fact, according to statistics from the International Centre for Prison Studies and US incarceration data, only a handful of countries with more than half a million people have higher incarceration rates: Thailand, Panama, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, the Russian Federation, Rwanda and Cuba.