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Let me rise

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Listen to Juan Williams on the DC Scholarship program. Folks, we have to do something about this. From Virginia Walden at DC Parents for School Choice: Sens. Lieberman (I-CT), Collins (R-ME), Feinstein (D-CA), Voinovich (R-OH), Byrd (D-WV), and Ensign (R-NV) have sponsored a bipartisan amendment that would save the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) – a program that has been an educational lifeline for more than 3,330 children from very low-income District of Columbia families. Despite assuring Senate supporters of OSP more than a year ago that they would have floor time to offer their reauthorization legislation, the Senators have not been allowed a vote on this program. Yesterday, after the Lieberman amendment was filed, all Senators received threatening […]

Senator Brian Joyce is right

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The Herald has a piece today on Senator Joyce getting flak from various Milton residents about his proposal to put the rink out for a long-term lease. Residents are concerned about cost and availability. They should read our case study of what happened after the state put some (the former DEM) rinks out to lease in the mid-90s: More availability, greater capital investment, increased attendance, and continued affordability. This is not the first time that Senator Joyce has stuck his neck out at some risk in his own district to do the right thing. Careful readers of this space will note we lauded him previously for supporting the privatization of the Ponkapoag golf course.

Headquarters and Jobs

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If you had a chance to read Steve Syre in the Globe this morning, you know about our latest piece of research. We continue our examination of job creation in Massachusetts by taking a look at how headquarters employment has changed. And the news is not good. Our report, Heading Down: The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters, details stunning job losses. On a net basis, employment at headquarters is down by over 250,000 jobs. The biggest single driver of this is contraction of headquarters, which cost close to 730,000 jobs. The next biggest driver is the closure of headquarters, which accounts for 440,000+ job losses. A particular issue with headquarters ‘deaths’ is that headquarter births are not coming close to balancing […]

Heading Down: The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters

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The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters Author(s): John Friar and Megan Gay — Publication date: 2010-03-05 Category: Economic Opportunity Abstract: This brief is the second in a series on employment trends in Massachusetts from 1990 to 2007, an eighteen- year period leading up to the current recession. From 1990 to 2007, the U.S. experienced net job growth of 26.6%; in the same period Massachusetts experienced a net job loss of 0.3%, losing a total of 11,816 jobs. From 1990 until 2003, Massachusetts job trends roughly followed US trends: losing jobs in 1990-1992 and 2001-2003 due to recessions and gaining jobs in intervening years. Heading Down: The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters

Angelo Scaccia Has No Idea What Boston Gets in Local Aid

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In the debate over the Lawrence loan bill, Hyde Park Rep. Angelo Scaccia rose to support the bill, noting: One of the biggest debates every year is local aid. If that’s not a handout to every community, I don’t know what is. How many communities could survive without the local aid, Chapter 70? Is that a bailout? Of course it is. Of course it is. How many communities would flounder today without that subsidy? Many. There are many communities that we help in the area of local aid, 75, 80, 90, 95 percent of their budget. Take for instance the city of Boston. (emphasis added; from State House News, sub. req’d) He’s represented a Boston district for over 30 years, […]