Diversity and Inclusion

3 honored at 10th annual TechWomen awards

Tech leaders converged on Fidelity Investments’ Merrimack campus May 28 for the 10th anniversary of NH Tech Alliance’s TechWomen Connect and Awards, and in a first, one of the night’s three honorees was a middle school teacher.

Co-ops create community, advisors say

Grocery stores, carpet and flooring outlets and an outdoor goods company seem like unconnected retail operations. As a group of business owners recently heard at an informational session in Manchester, they’re all sectors that include cooperatively owned companies with great success.

Immigrants are a ‘productive and crucial part’ of economy, state report says

Foreign-born workers — whether naturalized citizens, noncitizens with work authorizations or undocumented immigrants — comprise nearly 7% of the New Hampshire workforce, according to a report issued by the state Department of Employment Security. The 11-page report provides a statistical snapshot of the 95,000 Granite State residents born outside the United States. It calls immigrants “a productive and crucial part” of the state’s economy.