If you think education is expensive, try foreclosure.

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This year's collapse of mortgage lending—also rendered as a…

Only big businesses move, right? Wrong!

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Even if we lose all our headquarters, even if big business expansions…

A Troubling Pattern Emerging?

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Friday's Globe has two articles on recent actions by the Governor…

Unemployment Insurance — Why You Should Care

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The irascible Jon Keller gets it exactly right in a recent post…

Build it and they will come?

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I think we have heard that one before. So now we are going to…

Crime in Urban Areas – Perception and Reality

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At Pioneer's February conference on Revitalizing Middle Cities…

Rehabbing Urban Redevelopment: Working Paper on Building the Next Urban Economy

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This report surveys 14 Massachusetts cities outside the immediate…

Measuring Up? The Cost of Doing Business in Massachusetts

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Author: Global Insight This study shows that, on average,…

Measuring Up? The Cost of Doing Business in Massachusetts

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Author: Global Insight This study shows that, on average,…

Leaving Money on the Table: The 106 Pension Funds of Massachusetts

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Author: Ken Ardon The focus of this paper is the choice that…

A Roadmap to Financing

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Collaboration Between Springifled Community-Based Business…

Getting Home: Overcoming Barriers to Housing in Greater Boston

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Author: Charles C. Euchner, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston,…

Build More or Manage Better? Subsidized Housing in Massachusetts

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Authors: Howard Husock and David J. Bobb Increases in the…

The Power To Take: The Use of Eminent Domain in Massachusetts

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Author: Michael Malamut, Esq., New England Legal Foundation This…

Toward a High-Performance Workplace: Fixing Civil Service in Massachusetts

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Author: Jonathan Walters, Governing Magazine This paper is…

Nonprofit to For-Profit Conversions in Health Care

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Privatization is a term that has triggered passionate debate…