MassBudget has been credited with providing the research and analysis necessary for the achievement of critical policy advances including: raising the Massachusetts $15 minimum wage, establishing Paid Family & Medical Leave, achieving Earned Paid Sick Time, fairer corporate taxes that have netted substantial revenue for vital state programs, boosting take-home pay for low-income families through Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) increases, and playing a substantial role in the passage of the nation’s most progressive K-12 education funding bill – the 2019 Student Opportunity Act.
Racial and economic justice require tax justice and equitable state investment.