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/in Featured, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with mortgage expert, Trip Miller of Cambridge Savings Bank, about mortgage rates and trends and explores best practices for finding a mortgage structure that suits individual buyers’ needs.
Study: Ed Reform Has Improved Academic Performance and Equity
/in Education, Featured, Pioneer Research /by Editorial StaffOver the past 30 years, rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability for outcomes have propelled Massachusetts public schools to become the nation’s best. Taking away the high-stakes component of MCAS would weaken the accountability system and lead stakeholders to de-emphasize the assessment data that drives high-quality instruction, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.
UK U-Warwick’s Benjamin Smith on Mexico’s Cartels & Drug Trade
/in Education, Featured, Learning Curve, News, Podcast /by Editorial StaffProf. Benjamin Smith, author of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade, provides insights into various aspects of the Mexican drug trade, including its historical context and the evolution of illicit drug products over time. He discusses key cartels and their methods, the impact of the drug trade on Mexico’s murder rates, the immense financial scale of the trade, its effect on Mexico and the U.S., and the challenges law enforcement face in combating it. Smith explores the relationship among Mexican cartels, other foreign countries, and the illicit drug market in the U.S.
Medicaid’s Massive Miasma: Taming Beacon Hill’s Burgeoning Budget Beast
/in Featured, News, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffMarc Joffe, a state policy analyst at the Cato Institute, talks about his research on Medicaid’s cost and size. They explore how Massachusetts can control spending growth while protecting other priorities.
Middlemen Pushing Up Retail Costs of Drugs
/in Blog, Blog: Healthcare, Blog: Healthcare Transparency, Blog: Medicaid, Featured, Health Care, Health Care Policy (Federal), Healthcare /by Gauri BinoyThe reality is that non-price factors, including several players, are causing net prices to decline and retail prices to increase. Those players include employers, health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), all of whom have continuously circumvented the system through loopholes and complicated systems of reimbursement that tend to hurt patients