Are there reasons to be optimistic about the Mass. economy? Yes and no

The trade group Associated Industries of Massachusetts held an economic outlook breakfast at Roxbury Community College on Sept. 25, 2025. From left: AIM chief executive Brooke Thomson, Massachusetts secretary of education Patrick Tutwiler, Xiomara Albán DeLobato, vice president of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council and Rick MacDonald, New England region manager at J.P. Morgan Commercial Banking.