The Massachusetts Miracle refers to the incredible recovery, to the lowest unemployment and the highest rate of industrial growth among industrial states in the 1980's, after the decline of traditional industry in the 1960's and 1970's.
所謂「麻省奇蹟」，是指波士頓在六、七○年代因傳統紡織、製鞋等工業外移而沒落後，重新創造出全美國各工業州中最低的失業率，以及最高的工業成長率。