13.4% of Mass. jobs nonprofits

13.4% of Mass. jobs nonprofits: "13.4% of Mass. jobs nonprofits
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
By JOHN APPLETON
jappleton@repub.com
HOLYOKE - At a time when business and government employment are declining, nonprofit corporations have been growing to a point where they now account for 13.4 percent of the state's jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth.
Researcher Rachel Deyette Werkema, who worked on 'the Massachusetts Nonprofit Sector: An Economic Profile,' discussed it yesterday at Holyoke Community College at a forum with representatives of nonprofit corporations throughout Western Massachusetts. "