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High School Education in Brighton, MA
/0 Comments/in Blog: Education, Blog: Transparency /by Mitch BoveIn 2010, Brighton High School in Boston had an enrollment of 1,208 students, according to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. That year, the school’s graduation rate was 57.1 percent of the 224 students in the senior class according to Pioneer Institute’s MassReportCards graduation rate statistics. Five years later in 2015, Brighton High School had 974 total students enrolled with a 61.1 percent graduation rate. In 2020, they had 535 students enrolled with a 54.7 percent graduation rate and the most recent year on record, 2021, Brighton HS had 402 students enrolled with a 68.2 percent graduation rate. Overall, Brighton High School’s enrollment has been dropping in the past decade, but their graduation rates have been increasing, which […]
Employment has risen across all counties except one.
/0 Comments/in News /by Etelson AlciusEmployment has remained strong in Massachusetts. With labor force participation of 66.7 percent as of April 2022, 4 percent higher than the national average, and employment growth nearing 10 percent since 2004, the state has one of the best labor markets in the nation thanks to counties like Middlesex and Suffolk. But not all counties contribute to this success story. As we begin to shift westward in Massachusetts, certain counties are far from the reality described above; one of them is Worcester. So what’s going on in the county, and what’s the reason for it? County Employment Source: Pioneer Institute’s Masseconomix website As shown in the chart above, all counties, save for one, have experienced employment growth since 2004. […]
SCOTUS Gun Stun: Bearing Arms in Summer Bruen Decision
/in Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with CATO Institute research fellow Trevor Burrus about the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen and its implications for an individual’s right to carry a fire arm in states such as Massachusetts.
Emigration from Massachusetts is at a Decade High, Despite Booming Economy and High Standard of Living
/in Better Government, Blog, Blog: Better Government, Blog: Economy, Blog: Transparency, Featured, News, Transparency /by Joseph StaruskiThe economy is doing great, so why are people leaving Massachusetts?
Cris Ramón on How to Build Up Immigrant Businesses
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, JobMakers /by Editorial StaffThis week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Cris Ramón, son of immigrants from El Salvador, immigration policy analyst, and coauthor of the new report, Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Economic Potential and Obstacles to Success published by the Bipartisan Policy Center.