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Cracks in the Foundation of MA K-12 Funding
The foundation budget established under the Education Reform Act of 1993 to calculate adequate baseline spending for the state's public school districts understates the costs ...
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Editorial: “Zero-based” budgeting
Still, residents should not let their hopes soar. Eliminating waste is unlikely to be enough. According to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, since the ...
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Mass. budget builders agree on $20.5B in revenues
Noah Berger, executive director of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, said the estimate was "reasonable and cautious." The total of ...
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Outlook for State Budget
Noah Berger of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center discusses the 2012 Massachusetts budget with Steve Ives.
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Better By Degrees
All that good news comes from a report released earlier this month by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. The State of Working Massachusetts 2010 ...
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Higher Education Attainment Helps Weather Downturn
MASSACHUSETTS (WAMC) - Massachusetts is weathering the economic downturn better than most states, that's according to a new report released by the Massachusetts Budget and ...
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State capitol briefs, Tues. Jan 4
The gap between projected state spending needed to maintain state services and available revenues next fiscal year is just shy of $1.8 billion, according to ...
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Fall River and Massachusetts slated to slice manufacturing, production jobs in years to come
Massachusetts has fared better than most states during the recession but will face "enormous fiscal and economic challenges" in the years ahead, according to a ...
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Bay State survives jobs crisis better than most
During the recent crisis, Massachusetts lost fewer jobs than most states and maintained higher wages, all while avoiding a significant increase in poverty, according to ...
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Wages rise for all, but a gap widens
Thanks to its colleges and universities, Massachusetts has one of the best-educated, best-paid workforces in the nation, but a new study shows the gap between ...
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