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Where are Barnstable residents migrating to?
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Economy, Blog: Transparency /by Nathan BornsteinUsing Pioneer Institute’s newest database, Massachusetts IRS Data Discovery, we can see migration trends among Massachusetts citizens to other U.S. states and counties from 2019. For a specific example of migration, we can look at Barnstable County (Cape Cod) to see if there are any apparent trends in the destinations of departing Barnstable residents. States and counties Barnstable county residents are migrating to in 2019: net returns (number of migrants to and from Barnstable): Connecticut 96 New York 44 Foreign 26 New Hampshire 24 Maryland 21 Illinois 20 District of Columbia 1 California -7 Washington -20 Virginia -21 South Carolina -22 Arizona -29 Maine -46 Rhode Island -58 Florida -352 Table 1 IRS database/AGI migration Table 1 shows […]
Chasing Election Integrity: Strict Voter ID Laws’ Impact on Turnout and Fraud
/in Blog, Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons about his recently released NBER paper on the effects of strict voter ID laws on voter behavior and fraud across the United States over 10 years, examining the results of the 1.6 billion observation dataset by age, race, gender, and party affiliation.
Jeeves & Wooster’s World The Comic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse – 30 Resources for Parents & Students
/in Blog: Education, COVID Education, COVID education resources, Featured, Jamie Gass, News /by Jamie GassLife and writing can and should be playful, witty, light, fun, and make us smile. This is particularly important during the hard realities and sometimes loneliness of COVID, lockdowns, masks, and the increasingly stilted use of language today. To provide some much-needed comic relief and to help people of all age groups glory in the English language, take ourselves less seriously, and laugh more – please enjoy the world of P.G. Wodehouse!
Why is housing so expensive in Boston?
/0 Comments/in News /by Maida RazaAccording to a New York University study, Boston had the third highest median rent in the US behind only Washington DC and San Francisco in 2015. The median price for a single-family house was $725,000 in 2021, which is 14% higher than the price in 2020. The number of houses available in 2021 has fallen by one-third compared to 2020. A study conducted by The Boston Foundation argues that Greater Boston has not been issuing enough building permits required to meet the growing economy and population since 1980. That may be a defining factor for skyrocketing rents in the city. Approving housing permits in Boston is cumbersome due to prevalent zoning practices. Zoning is an urban planning tool that divides […]
Public Statement on the MA Legislature’s Blanket Pension Giveaway
/in Better Government, Featured, Press Releases: COVID, Press Releases: Government, Press Releases: Pensions, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffBeacon Hill just put on full display what happens when it is awash in money. House Bill 2808 is entitled, “An Act relative to providing a COVID-19 retirement credit to essential public workers.” It calls for adding three years of additional retirement credit to state “employees who have volunteered to work or have been required to work at their respective worksites or any other worksite outside of their personal residences during the COVID-19 state of emergency…” But upon reading the brief bill, it quickly becomes clear that this legislation is irresponsible in the extreme.