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One in Seven Massachusetts Children Still in Poverty; Almost All Have Health Insurance
Children in Massachusetts are better off as a whole than children nationally. And thanks to more than a decade's worth of health reform in Massachusetts, ...
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Health Reform at Work: Massachusetts Still National Leader in Health Insurance Coverage
Massachusetts is the national leader in providing health insurance coverage to its residents, thanks to health reform measures adopted a decade ago. The state's health ...
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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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Analyzing the State Budget for FY 2017
This Budget Monitor describes the funding decisions in each major section of the state budget for Fiscal Year 2017. It compares proposed funding levels with ...
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Airbnb and Taxes: What Other States are Doing and How Much Revenue Might Be Raised in Massachusetts
Eleven other states extend taxes on short-term rentals such as Airbnb. The factsheet explains the current Massachusetts exemption for short-term residential rentals and how taxing ...
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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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Analyzing the Legislature’s Budget for FY 2017
How did the Legislature balance the budget in the face of a sudden $750 million shortfall? The revenue decline did not all translate into budget ...
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A First Look at the Legislative Budget
The budget enacted by the Legislature today represents both compromises between the House and Senate proposals, and new solutions to address the challenges caused by ...
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