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STATEHOUSE ROUNDUP: Life, liberty and the pursuit of ventilators
The tea leaves, when they can read them, will likely present a bleak picture – the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center's testimony contemplates a scenario ...
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STATEHOUSE ROUNDUP: Life, liberty and the pursuit of ventilators
The tea leaves, when they can read them, will likely present a bleak picture – the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center's testimony contemplates a scenario ...
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“Sobering” Estimates Mean Budgeting With Billions Less
Despite the forecasts, or perhaps because of them, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center President Marie-Frances Rivera told lawmakers and the administration it was "not the ...
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Massachusetts Lawmakers Warn Of Possible Depression
Marie-Frances Rivera, president of MassBudget, said her think tank is estimating state tax collections could fall $5.0 billion to $5.7 billion in the current fiscal ...
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Coronavirus leaves economists uncertain: 8 takes on COVID-19’s final toll on Massachusetts
The state will need to tap into its rainy day fund and should also reconsider some tax breaks and work to ensure it receives as ...
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Sunday Notebook
The tea leaves, when they can read them, will likely present a bleak picture - the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center's testimony contemplates a scenario ...
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Tech Issues Derail Massachusetts State Budget Roundtable
The public projections so far are bleak. Annual revenue shortfalls could stretch to $5 billion or $6 billion, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center estimated.
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Technology woes derail state house roundtable on budget impact of coronavirus
The public projections so far are bleak. Annual revenue shortfalls could stretch to $5 billion or $6 billion, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center estimated.
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Massachusetts coronavirus relief fund launches with over $13 million
A record-setting 330,000 people in Massachusetts filed for unemployment during the final two weeks of March as the coronavirus pandemic escalated, according to federal statistics, ...
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The $2 Trillion Federal Stimulus Plan Will Help Massachusetts, But Lawmakers Say It’s Only A Start.
"It's a good starting point to help the American people right now, and to help the people of Massachusetts," said Marie-Frances Rivera, president of the ...
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Congress Urged to Act as Pandemic Losses Threaten Transit Agencies
Phineas Baxandall, a Senior Analyst at the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and occasional StreetsblogMASS contributor, notes that with ridership and traffic congestion down, "urgency ...
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Call on Congress to Support Public Transit Before Bailing Out Private Industries
MilNeil spoke to Phineas Baxandall, a Senior Analyst at the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and occasional StreetsblogMASS contributor. With ridership down and traffic congestion ...
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Virus Crisis Could Lead To Use Of State’s Savings
"This is a rainy day, so we need to have further policy debates about whether it makes sense to pull in the 'rainy day' at ...
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Coronavirus could cause Mass. lawmakers to rethink the state budget`
Budget observers see the potential for a cavalcade of expenses if the economy worsens, and the impacts from the virus widen. Marie-Frances Rivera, president of ...
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Education aid phase-in emerging as flashpoint
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center reported last month that increasing low-income rate to the same one-seventh level would cost another $74 million next fiscal ...
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