MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA
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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…
Pay No Mind to the Thieves from NH
How do we create jobs? If you read media accounts, you'd think…
Do you feel safer in a hospital or on an airplane?
The World Health Organization released a report recently that…
The New Normal: Job Creation In Massachusetts
Trying to figure out the jobs picture in Massachusetts is a challenging…
The Relentless Quest for Expansion
Some familiar faces are once again calling for new revenues for…
Meet the Pillars of the Clean Economy
Yep, your friendly MBTA bus driver and local garbage collector…
Their Solution is Dilution
If there was any confusion about what Massachusetts public employee…
Outsourcing Helps Cities and Towns Provide Better Services for Less
New Report Shows Municipalities across the Bay State Can Reduce Costs by 75% and
Increase Productivity by Contracting Services
Feds Crapping Away Health $ and Increasing Deficit
GAO (Government Accountability Office) will release a report…
Vermont Single-Payer Plan Full of Holes
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts held a…
A Platform You Can Believe In
Finally, a political party I can support unreservedly: Switzerland's…
Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out of My Hat
Again?
Ruffle up my sleeve. Presto. The Great and Good…
State budget: Late and not so great
With the next fiscal year now the current fiscal year, it’s…
Beacon Hill’s Budget MassHealth Mirage
Today the Legislature will vote on the final state budget.
I…
Recovering from a Recession
Flash forward a decade and the US cycle starting in 2001 was 4 years; conversely, and ominously for the state, Massachusetts never returned to its February 2001 employment peak, as seen in Figure 1 B. It came close in March 2008, but again began losing jobs due to the latest recession. Nevertheless, if for the purposes of comparison we allow coming close to stand in for a return to peak employment, Massachusetts had a 7-year cycle sinking into and then coming out of the 2001 recession.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Outsourcing
There is emerging academic literature on the topic of government contracting and outsourcing. This paper does not seek to examine outsourcing from an academic perspective, however, but rather seeks to be a practitioner's guide to the issue. In doing so, this paper outlines important managerial and political considerations that may help leaders evaluate the potential of outsourcing services.