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Labor Day 2015: Important Gains, Many Challenges for MA Workers
Labor Day will arrive again this Monday, offering all of us a chance to remember and to celebrate the social and economic achievements of American ...
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Analyzing the State Budget for FY 2016
With the House and Senate having overridden a number of the Governor's vetoes the Fiscal Year 2016 (FY 2016) budget is now largely complete. This ...
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2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book Report
Children in Massachusetts lead the nation in educational achievement, and are at or near the top in a number of measures of health, but one ...
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Debt-Free Public Higher Education: What Would It Take?
Expanding access to affordable higher education would directly help tens of thousands of students in Massachusetts, and their families. In addition to giving more of ...
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Analyzing the Legislature’s Budget for FY 2016
The Legislature's FY 2016 budget, approved by the House and Senate, makes few major changes in overall support for the programs to educate our children, ...
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FAQ: Expanding School Meals and Implications for School Funding Formulas
Massachusetts schools are phasing-in a set of improvements to their school meals programs. These changes help ensure that more kids eat healthy meals every day ...
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New Federal Revenue Affects State Spending Trends
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act affects the state's fiscal condition in a number of ways. Most significantly, the law provides substantial new federal revenue ...
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Conference Preview: Differences Between the Senate and House Budgets for FY 2016
This Monitor describes major differences between the House and Senate final budgets that will need to be reconciled by the conference committee now meeting. The ...
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Analyzing the Senate Ways and Means Budget for FY2016
The Senate Ways and Means proposal for FY 2016 modestly increases education programs above levels in the Governor's and House budgets and it follows the ...
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Building an Economy that Works for Everyone: Implications of Privatization and the Pacheco Law
This fact sheet examines the core elements of the "Pacheco Law"- the requirement that privatization efforts lead to savings based on improved efficiency and that ...
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