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Fare-Free Public Buses are Yielding Results in Southeastern MA
Since 2024, residents and visitors in Southern Massachusetts step onto public buses and shuttles without a thought because fares have been eliminated - and the ...
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What Does Massachusetts Transportation Funding Support and What Are the Revenue Sources?
Where do the resources come from to operate our state's transportation system, and where is the money spent?
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MassBudget Applauds Legislature Using Fair Share as Intended
The Commonwealth can celebrate that two years after Massachusetts voters passed the Fair Share amendment, it is working as promised. MassBudget applauds the Legislature for ...
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Two Years of Fair Share Funding at Work
Nearly two years after Massachusetts voted to create a more equitable tax system to directly support education and transportation, $2.3 billion dollars have been dispersed ...
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2025 Massachusetts Budget Showcases Accomplishments of Fair Share Amendment
As the budget making process for the current fiscal year finishes, Massachusetts would be in a very different place if voters hadn’t approved the Fair ...
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Presentation – Transportation Funding: Context, Challenges & Progress
On June 24, 2024, Policy Director Phineas Baxandall joined Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA)'s community conversation on transportation funding. Baxandall focused on how Fair Share spending ...
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Fair Share Advances Racial Equity Through New Budget Investments
The first year of investments made with Fair Share dollars demonstrate how the new surtax creates opportunities to mitigate the ongoing harms of structural racism ...
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Three Funds, One Purpose: Implementing Fair Share
The Fiscal Year 2024 budget is the first state budget to include money raised from the Fair Share Amendment, making important investments in education and ...
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Your Fair Share Dollars at Work: Critical Investments and Hard Choices
The Fair Share Amendment is doing what voters wanted it to do: making new, important investments in our Commonwealth and making our tax system more ...
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How Will We Spend Fair Share Dollars? Competing Proposals Highlight Needs and Opportunities
Fiscal Year 2024, which starts in July 2023, is the first state budget to include Fair Share dollars, and the Governor's, House, and Senate budget ...
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