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What is the Actual State Cost of MassHealth in State Fiscal Year 2025?
This brief looks beyond the budget totals to help stakeholders better understand the actual state cost of MassHealth by accounting for the state and federal ...
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Job Opening – Housing Policy Analyst
MassBudget is seeking a housing policy analyst to focus on researching and analyzing housing policy across the Commonwealth, with associated activities to advocate for policy ...
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With Fair Share Dollars, Senate Ways and Means Proposes Bold Improvements, Though Problems with Student Opportunity Act Remain
On May 7th, the Senate Ways and Means (SWM) Committee released its proposed budget for the Fiscal Year 2025. Like last month’s House budget proposal, ...
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Six Things at Stake for Racial Justice in the FY 2024 Budget Conference
After examining the House and Senate Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposals, our budget analysts highlighted six differences between the two that have implications for racial ...
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Debunking the Five Major Myths About Outmigration
Recently, multiple news articles, op-eds, and think tank reports have asserted that Massachusetts is suffering an exodus of households, particularly high-income households, fleeing to states ...
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Tax credit pitched to entice small biz hires – Daily Hampshire Gazette
To Phineas Baxandall of the Mass. Budget and Policy Center, small local businesses “get extolled when we’re talking about business tax cuts,” but …Google Alert – ...
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