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MassBudget’s Look at the Fiscal Year 2025 House Ways and Means Budget Proposal
The House Ways and Means (HWM) Committee released its proposed budget for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The proposal reflects both an increase in anticipated ...
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Presentation: K-12 Funding Update for the Legislative Gateway Caucus
On March 27, 2024, Deputy Policy Director Colin Jones presented to the Legislative Gateway Caucus. He provided a briefing on K-12 funding and policy, including ...
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How Do Business Taxes in MA Compare to Other States?
MassBudget analyzed a recent data report by The Council on State Taxation (COST) - a Washington DC based trade association representing over 500 multistate and ...
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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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Testimony in Support of H489/S301 on Affordable and Accessible Early Education
Policy Analyst Adam Jones urges the Joint Committee on Education to create a Commonwealth that features high-quality, affordable child care accessible to more families.
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Statement on Governor’s Affordable Homes Act
Statement by Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in response to bill H.4138, which takes the scale of our state's housing challenges seriously and can be ...
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Statement on Governor’s Proposal to Leverage Stabilization Funds to Secure Federal Grants
Statement by Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Interim President Phineas Baxandall in response to today’s proposal by Governor Maura Healey to utilize interest from the ...
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Testimony in Opposition to H.1848 on Reclassifying Rideshare Drivers
MassBudget's written testimony submitted in opposition to H1848, An Act establishing rights and obligations of transportation network drivers and transportation network companies.
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MassBudget Statement on the 2023 Tax Relief Package
Today, the conference committee presented the biggest package of tax changes in 15 years. We commend them for taking important steps to improve affordability for ...
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Testimony in Support of Raising the Minimum Wage
MassBudget's Policy Director Phineas Baxandall urges the Joint Committee on Labor & Workforce Development to pass a bill to increase the minimum wage out of ...
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New Census Data Highlights Need for Family Tax Credits Waiting in State House
While the Massachusetts Legislature debates two versions of expanded tax credits to improve affordability for families, new census data dramatically show what a difference these ...
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Higher Education Investments: Supporting Our Economy and Future Generations
Public higher education is critically important to the success of Massachusetts’ economy, but state support has lagged in recent decades. This report evaluates current proposals ...
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MassBudget testifies to end tax subsidy for private jets
MassBudget testified in support of House bill 2826 and Senate bill 1758, which would end the sales tax exemption for personal aircraft. The exemption disproportionately ...
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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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Statement by MassBudget on the FY2024 Budget
Today the legislature passed a budget bill for Fiscal Year 2024. The $56.26 billion budget now goes to Governor Healey. Enabled by new revenue from ...
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Final Tax Package Can Improve Tax Fairness & Help Build Toward Shared Prosperity
Currently, a conference committee is working on a compromise tax package between the House's and Senate's proposals. The fairest tax package would be one that ...
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State-Level Child Tax Credits are Having a Moment in the Sun: Will Massachusetts Families be Left in the Dark?
The Massachusetts legislature is considering creating the Child and Family Tax Credit (CFTC), a refundable tax credit for families with children and adult dependents. It ...
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