October 08, 2019
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget

Businesses increasingly worry about an economic contraction in 2020

Jon Chesto ,

The Boston Globe

Eileen McAnneny, president of the business-backed Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, says it’s not really surprising that employers are worrying more about the end to a decade-plus of economic expansion. But there are mixed signals, still: She points to the latest jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that show the country’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest point in 50 years.