A business-backed group wants the state legislature to resolve a projected funding gap at the MBTA this year, saying the high stakes include Boston’s recovery from pandemic impacts and the safety and reliability of the heavily-used transit system.
The financial and policy analysts at the Mass. Taxpayers Foundation have mapped out how “the path to a safe and reliable transit system just got a lot longer” thanks to a ballooning price tag for bringing the MBTA’s infrastructure into a state of good repair.
One expert said the data “just jumps off the page how much housing has to be a central driver of the domestic outmigration we’re seeing.”
Lawmakers could combine virtually every tax relief measure proposed in divergent House and Senate bills and still keep the price tag close to the impact each branch’s budget-writers anticipated next year, a new report suggests.
The “red flags are waving” across Massachusetts, with housing, transportation and migration patterns continuing to trend in the wrong direction, according to a new report.
The number of people between the ages of 20 and 64 in Massachusetts is projected to fall by 120,000 people by 2030, a worrying trend that a leading business group says requires aggressive countermeasures.
Doug Howgate, a policy analyst who has helped shape state budgets for nearly two decades as a top Senate staffer and a trusted voice of business interests, has been chosen to take over as president of the influential Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
Eileen McAnneny, the first woman to lead the influential Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and a public policy “powerhouse,” plans to retire at the end of this year.
Gross state product would increase by $25 billion over five years if Massachusetts closed its racial divide in wages, housing, investments, and wealth, according to a new report.
The Baker administration’s plan to levy heavy per-employee assessments on businesses that don’t meet proposed health insurance requirements may have been based on a “flawed premise,” according to an influential Beacon Hill think tank.
