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Budget Monitor: the Governor’s Budget for FY 2014
Education and Transportation receive significant new funding in the Governor's budget. To pay for these, and other things, the Governor has proposed broad changes to ...
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A First Look at the Governor’s Proposals on Education, Transportation, and Revenue
In recent days, the Governor has proposed: 1) increased funding for education; 2) fixes and improvements to our transportation system; 3) a revenue plan to ...
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A Preview of the FY 2014 Budget
Squeezed by the weak national economy and the tax cuts of the late 1990s, Massachusetts will once again face a significant budget deficit in FY ...
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Adjusting for Personal Income: When, Why, and How
When we commit to doing things together through our government, we also commit to paying for them together through taxes. Discussions of budgets and taxes ...
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The Rise and Fall of Local Aid in Massachusetts
Total aid to cities and towns declined by $1.7 billion between 1982 and 2012. Like so many other programs in the state budget, it has ...
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MassBudget Brief: What Are 9C Cuts?
On October 29, 2009, Governor Patrick exercised his authority under state law to make spending cuts to the state's FY 2010 budget. This MassBudget Brief ...
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Funding for Dept. of Children and Families and Children at the Dept. of Mental Health, FY 2009 – FY 2013
Funding for children through the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Mental Health has been cut significantly since the beginning of the ...
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Budget Monitor: The FY 2013 Budget
There is no revenue from new taxes in the FY 2013 budget. Instead, Massachusetts fills its roughly $1.3 billion budget gap through a combination of ...
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Health Care in the June Supplement to the FY 2012 Budget
This budget brief describes the proposals affecting MassHealth (Medicaid) and other health care programs which were included in a June supplement to the FY 2012 ...
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Health Care in the FY 2013 Budget
This budget brief describes the proposals affecting MassHealth (Medicaid) and other health care programs which were included in the FY 2013 budget. It is part ...
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