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Maintaining an Effective Transportation System
This fact sheet examines information from the Department of Transportation that suggests current levels of investment are not enough to keep our roads, bridges and ...
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Proposed Low-Income Student Changes Would Have Varied Chapter 70 Impact
In this brief we describe three proposed changes to the treatment of low-income students in the Chapter 70 formula for FY 2017, analyze their combined ...
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Direct Certification for School Meals: Feeding Students, Counting Kids, Funding Schools
This brief describes a number of solutions that would improve the effectiveness of the direct certification system and its ability to accurately identify low-income students.
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Analyzing the Governor’s FY 2017 Budget
The Governor's budget proposal for FY 2017 is best described as an austerity budget. It contains small cuts and spending reductions across government and includes ...
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The Single Sales Factor Tax Break: Has It Worked?
The Governor's budget proposal will reportedly include the expansion of a corporate tax break called Single Sales Factor apportionment. This factsheet describes how this tax ...
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Incarceration Trends in Massachusetts: Long-Term Increases, Recent Progress
This paper analyzes incarceration trends in Massachusetts over the past four decades. We see progress, but also that we have a long way to go: ...
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A Preview of the FY 2017 Budget
This preview provides an overview of both the specific challenges facing the Commonwealth this year and troubling longer-term trends that state budget writers face in ...
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Building a Strong Economy: The Roles of Education, Transportation, and Tax Policy
Effective economic policies can create a more highly productive state economy and make it possible to improve economic opportunity and security for working families. This ...
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Massachusetts’s Earned Income Tax Credit
The EITC improves the economic security of working families by increasing the after tax incomes of low and moderate wage workers. This factsheet explains how ...
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The Effects of a $10 Minimum Wage in 2016
On January 1st, 2016 the minimum wage will increase to $10 an hour. This is part of a scheduled set of increases that will bring ...
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