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Investing in People: Workforce Training in the Massachusetts State Budget
In conjunction with our online resource, the Jobs & Workforce Budget, this brief analyzes state support for workforce development over the past decade, finding that ...
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The SNAP Employment and Training Program: Opportunities to Expand Work Supports for Low-Income People in Massachusetts
Through recent work, state officials and leaders from the workforce training community have recognized the SNAP Employment & Training program as an important opportunity to ...
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Massachusetts’ Earned Income Tax Credit and the Current Proposal for Increase and Reform
The state's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) aims to improve the economic security of lower income working families by increasing their after-tax earnings. A growing ...
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Income Growth and Gateway Cities: What Happened, and Is There a Path Back to Broadly Shared Prosperity?
It's possible for an economy to grow in ways that expand opportunity and promote broadly shared prosperity. We know that's possible because it's exactly what ...
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Family and Medical Leave in Massachusetts: A Current Snapshot
Estimates how many Massachusetts residents need and take a leave to cope with a serious illness, pregnancy or a new child. For instance, about 12 ...
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Paid Family and Medical Leave: Lessons from Other States
Most other industrialized countries and four U.S. states use insurance-style programs that replace a portion of workers' wages to enable time off to address a ...
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Paid Family & Medical Leave and Related Policies Explained
Many Massachusetts workers, particularly lower-wage workers, are not able to take needed time away from work to address important family needs. While there are health-related ...
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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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