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Climbing tax revenues, federal aid leave Massachusetts in improving financial place
State economists are telling taxpayers to keep an eye on the state budget — and the rainy-day fund — as tens of billions in federal ...
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Beacon Hill’s “Double-Dip” Tax Break Misses the Mark for Struggling Communities, Families, and Small Businesses
Statement by Marie-Frances Rivera, MassBudget President, on the PPP “double-dip” tax break “The Legislature’s decision yesterday on Emergency Paid Sick Time and Unemployment Insurance ...
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Massachusetts Should Prohibit “Double-Dip” Tax Break for Profitable Businesses
Click here for a PDF version of this statement. S.D. 172, “An act providing financial relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic”, is bad ...
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Governor’s FY 2022 Proposal: Short-Sighted Recovery Budget Leaves Opportunity to Chance for K-12, Transportation & More
Statement by Marie-Frances Rivera, MassBudget President, on Governor Baker's Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Proposal filed Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
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Statement on Senate Ways and Means Committee’s FY 2021 Budget
Read the statement by Marie-Frances Rivera, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget), on the Senate Ways and Means Committee's Fiscal Year (FY) ...
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Statement on Governor Baker’s Revised FY 2021 Budget Recommendation
Read the statement by Marie-Frances Rivera, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget), on Governor Baker's revised Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Recommendation.
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Massachusetts could face a $5 billion budget hole; Baker administration takes tax hikes off the table for now
The Senate and House chairmen of their respective chambers' budget committees, Michael J. Rodrigues and Aaron Michlewitz, prepared to host a virtual roundtable with experts ...
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Most Experts See Year-Over-Year Tax Revenue Decline
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center decided not to prepare a revenue estimate number for this hearing, said its president, Marie-Frances Rivera, citing "all the ...
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Tax hikes should be last resort as state seeks revenue
According to the News Service, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a state finance think tank, says its time for lawmakers to consider other ways to ...
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Outer Cape Workers Could Be Denied Unemployment This Winter
The original unemployment system was limited in various ways and covered only about half of the actual American workforce, according to Phineas Baxandall, a social ...
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Five things you need to know today, and heading toward a state budget showdown
"The Commonwealth should pair limited use of borrowing and withdrawals from the Rainy Day Fund with new policies to increase revenue, thus avoiding budget cuts ...
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Think tank: limit borrowing as part of state budget fix
In a report published Tuesday, the left-leaning Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center argues that policymakers can maintain state spending on public services and programs despite ...
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Letter: Vulnerable communities badly need assistance
Hardship is widespread, but Black, Latinx, indigenous and immigrant families have been particularly hard hit, with the crisis exacerbating long-standing inequities in health care, education, ...
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The federal government must step in to assist those in need during pandemic, not play political games (Letters)
The Republican and MassLive, September 21, 2020 With 11.3% unemployment, MA has one of the highest rates in the nation. Almost 1 in ...
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Corporate, cap gains tax hikes favored in new poll
"It's undeniable that this recession and public health crisis is hitting low-income communities and communities of color the hardest, and state budget cuts threaten ...
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