Aiming to update its groundbreaking 2015 research into Boston’s racial wealth gap and help identify solutions, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston announced a three-year research partnership with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and several prominent foundations this week.
A new poll from the MassINC Polling Group offers encouraging signs for a less-polluting future, but also offers a warning sign that officials can’t take riders’ comfort with mass transit for granted.
Several suburban Boston communities’ experiments with improving MBTA bus routes have succeeded, according to a new report from The Barr Foundation, speeding up trips significantly and making the buses more reliable.
