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Mapping the Risk: Where Federal SNAP Cuts Could Hit Massachusetts Hardest

This report identifies five factors that indicate a community’s likelihood to need food support and to be harmed if that support is interrupted. This culminates ...
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Pathways to Universal Pre-K: Lessons from Around the Country

ECE expansion in Massachusetts requires increased revenue as well as robust, streamlined coordination between state and local governments and community-based providers. By building on the ...
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Strengthening the Foundation: 28 Progressive Revenue Options for Building a Better Massachusetts

This new tool describes 28 ways the Commonwealth could generate substantial new revenue in a manner that would fall less on people with the least ...
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Job Opening: Housing and Human Services Policy Analyst

MassBudget is searching for a full-time policy analyst, focusing on housing and human service policy areas.
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MassBudget Statement on Massachusetts Wealth Study

Statement by MassBudget, a member of the Community Advisory Council for the first-ever survey of wealth in Massachusetts, newly released by Federal Reserve Bank of ...
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MassBudget In-Depth Analysis of FY 2027 General Appropriations Act (GAA)

This analysis represents the final step in the FY 2027 state budget creation process. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 General Appropriations Act (GAA) was signed ...
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Why Massachusetts Should Not Opt-In to the Federal School Voucher Program

What the Federal School Voucher Program Does Massachusetts has established itself as a state with a top-tier public education system, whose mission has been to ...
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MassBudget Preliminary Analysis of FY 2027 Conference Committee Budget Proposal

This analysis represents the next step in the FY 2027 state budget creation process. The Conference Committee, consisting of six members, three from the House ...
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Testimony in support of An Act significantly alleviating poverty (H.5085/S.3095)

June 23, 2026 The Honorable Robyn Kennedy, Chair                                    ...
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MassBudget Statement on the FY 2027 Conference Committee Budget Proposal

Last night, the Conference Committee released their proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. The six-member committee, three from the House of Representatives and three ...
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Join us for our 4th and final PolicyTALKS event of 2026!

This PolicyTALKS will examine successes of cross-sector collaborations, how to equitably fund and sustain a Pre-K system across the Commonwealth, and pathways to ensure universal access to Pre-K.

This PolicyTALKS event builds off of a “Pathways to Universal Pre-K” series continuing to be published by MassBudget and funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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