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How Much Would a Transfer Fee on Expensive Real Estate Generate for Your City or Town?
An interactive dashboard that provides data for each of Massachusetts' 351 cities and towns on how much revenue a community could raise by collecting an ...
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Fair Share Advances Racial Equity Through New Budget Investments
The first year of investments made with Fair Share dollars demonstrate how the new surtax creates opportunities to mitigate the ongoing harms of structural racism ...
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Statement on Governor’s Affordable Homes Act
Statement by Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in response to bill H.4138, which takes the scale of our state's housing challenges seriously and can be ...
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Phineas Baxandall to serve as Interim President
The MassBudget Board is excited to announce that long-time staff member, Dr. Phineas Baxandall, will serve as Interim President.
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MassBudget Statement on the 2023 Tax Relief Package
Today, the conference committee presented the biggest package of tax changes in 15 years. We commend them for taking important steps to improve affordability for ...
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After a successful decade, President Marie-Frances Rivera to leave MassBudget
It is with deep gratitude that we announce the departure of MassBudget’s President, Marie-Frances Rivera, and congratulate her on her outstanding leadership and dedicated service ...
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New Poll: Big Majority of Voters Support Child and Family Tax Credit that Reaches $600
Newly conducted polling shows 77% of registered Massachusetts voters support the creation of a Child and Family Tax Credit of $600. The Massachusetts legislature is ...
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Statement by MassBudget on the FY2024 Budget
Today the legislature passed a budget bill for Fiscal Year 2024. The $56.26 billion budget now goes to Governor Healey. Enabled by new revenue from ...
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Six Things at Stake for Racial Justice in the FY 2024 Budget Conference
After examining the House and Senate Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposals, our budget analysts highlighted six differences between the two that have implications for racial ...
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MassBudget’s Look at the Governor’s Budget Proposal
The governor's budget proposal includes investments that will reduce some of the hardship faced by Bay Staters, but it also would deeply cut two major ...
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