Actual inflation rates for school costs have exceeded this cap, reaching 8 percent in recent fiscal years, meaning the aid has not kept up with ...

The trust fund's steady stream of cash traces directly back to the 2022 Massachusetts Sports Wagering Act, signed by former Governor Charlie Baker, which authorized ...

Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center pointed to the estate tax as a lever lawmakers could continue to use to handle how wealth and generational wealth is passed ...

"This is designed to help wealthier families, which can actually crowd out in the application process, those from lower-income households, English learners, and other students ...

It didn’t take long for the progressive Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center to seize on that part of the Fed study as a reason to keep the ...

By Diti Kohli, August 3, 2026 What would it take to make public transit free in the United States? At least $25 billion, per one ...

By Colin A. Young, July 27, 2026 The Massachusetts Lottery officially entered the digital world Monday with the launch of Mass. Lottery Online, the long-awaited ...

The commonwealth's Fair Share tax revenue, a 4% surtax on income over $1 million, continues to exceed expectations, said Phineas Baxandall, director of research and ...

The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center counters that folding in the surtax “erodes the intent” of the 2022 Fair Share vote.

By Carrie Saldo, July 24, 2026 The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center urges state officials to avoid a federal school voucher program, saying it’s weighted to benefit private schools. What ...

By Jesse Collings, July 24, 2026 Massachusetts has until the end of the year to opt into the federal government’s school voucher program, one of ...

By Phil Bishop, July 22, 2026 The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) is urging state officials to avoid a federal school voucher program, arguing its model is weighted ...

By Phil Bishop, July 22, 2026 The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) is urging state officials to avoid a federal school voucher program, arguing its model is weighted ...

By Phil Bishop, July 22, 2026   The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) is urging state officials to avoid a federal school voucher program, arguing its model ...

On this episode of the Liz Speaks Podcast, Liz chats with Viviana Abreu-Hernández and Gregg Grenier from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget). Viviana ...

By Sam Drysdale, July 18, 2026 Massachusetts is being urged to reject a new federal school voucher program created under the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

July 17, 2026 MTA rank-and-file member Max Page w/ Anthony Clough from the Mass Budget and Policy Center: should Massachusetts opt into the federal school ...

By Jim Kinney, July 16, 2026 SPRINGFIELD — Free fares will continue on Pioneer Valley Transit Authority buses and the state’s other regional transit agencies under the $63.4 ...

By Sam Drysdale, July 14, 2026 A think tank is urging Massachusetts to reject a new federal school voucher program created under the One Big ...

By Jack Reardon. July 15, 2026 The select board urged state officials in a June 17 letter to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the decades-old distribution formula ...