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Forsaking Massachusetts’s Miracle: Risking Our Future With Past Mistakes
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with Greg Sullivan, Research Director at Pioneer Institute and author of Back to Taxachusetts?, about the link between Massachusetts’s decision to reduce tax rates and a generation-long economic renaissance – and the reasons why new taxes such as the proposed, so-called “Fair Share Amendment” risk taking us back to economic stagnation or decline.
Massachusetts Tax Revenues Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, Blog: Transparency, Economic Opportunity, Featured, News, Transparency /by Joseph StaruskiPandemic recovery and then some! Massachusetts revenues are higher than anyone was expecting, but where is all the money coming from? And what does this mean for the Massachusetts economy?
Yuliya Tarasava Invests In Americans Who Need It Most
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, JobMakers /by Editorial StaffThis week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Yuliya Tarasava, immigrant from Belarus and cofounder and chief operating officer at CNote, a platform that helps facilitate investment in financially underserved communities across America.
Study Documents The Design Challenges, Contracting Issues, And Delays Facing New MBTA Fare Collection System
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, Press Releases, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, Press Releases: MBTA, Press Releases: Transportation /by Editorial StaffThis new study unearths previously unseen communications between the MBTA and its contractors, showing that the MBTA’s efforts to modernize its fare collection system, including allowing payments with credit cards and bringing “tap and go” technology to Commuter Rail and ferry lines, was riddled with technological challenges and difficulties overseeing contractors as early as 2019, culminating in a 3-year delay to the project’s full implementation.
Columbia’s Prof. Nicholas Lemann on the Great Migration, the SAT, & Meritocracy
/in Academic Standards, Featured, Podcast, Related Education Blogs, US History /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” guest co-host Kerry McDonald talks with Nicholas Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia School of Journalism, and author of the books, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, and The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy.