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Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Boston, Massachusetts ·The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MassBudget) is an independent nonprofit organization that produces non-partisan policy research, analysis, and data-driven recommendations focused on improving the lives of low- and middle-income children and adults, strengthening our state’s economy, and enhancing the quality of life in Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Network publications
Ending the Tax Penalty Against Working Immigrants
- February 21, 2024
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Phineas Baxandall
State Budget Cuts Impact Lowest-Income Children
- January 17, 2024
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
How Baby Bonds Could Reduce Massachusetts’ Growing Wealth Gap
- November 20, 2023
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Eva Borquez
Testimony in Opposition to H. 1848 on Reclassifying Rideshare Drivers
- October 16, 2023
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Phineas Baxandall
Federal Relief and Recovery Funding and Massachusetts’ Transportation Future
- August 24, 2021
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Phineas Baxandall
Key Takeaways Although crucial to how we live and connect to opportunity, Massachusetts transportation systems are inadequate and inequitable. Federal COVID-19 relief has provided $3.3 billion to Massachusetts for public […]
Using State Fiscal Recovery Funds: Sustainable, Equitable, and Community-Driven Planning
- July 19, 2021
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- LA-BRINA ALMEIDA
Key Takeaways Spending federal relief dollars should be cross-sectional and community-driven. The plan for utilizing ARPA fiscal recovery funds should include long-term revenue options to sustain critical investments. ARPA recovery […]
Greater investment in kids needed to help them thrive after the pandemic
- June 21, 2021
- Schmudget Blog
Every child needs access to food, health care, safe and stable housing, and education. However, hundreds of thousands of children in Washington state lacked these necessities prior to the pandemic. […]
Towards the Other Side: Past the Pandemic and Beyond to an Equitable Recovery
- June 21, 2021
- Nancy Wagman
Key Takeaways Massachusetts ranked #1 nationally in measures of child well-being, but the state’s successes have been uneven. Even before the pandemic, poverty rates for children of color and for […]
Care for Our Commonwealth: The Cost of Universal, Affordable, High-Quality Early Care & Education Across Massachusetts
- April 28, 2021
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Colin Jones and Marcus Giang
Key Takeaways Massachusetts families depend on early care & education (ECE) to promote healthy child development and so parents can go to work knowing their children are safe. However, our […]
It’s About Time: Modernizing the Massachusetts Overtime Law Would Help 435,000 Salaried Workers
- May 2, 2019
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Jeremy Thompson
Everyone deserves fair pay for the hours they work, and the freedom to have a personal life away from the job. The more we work, the less time we have […]