Majority of respondents pay taxes on the biggest portion of their income via individual returns, would be subject to the tax hike
BOSTON – Nearly three quarters (73 percent) of Massachusetts business leaders think business associates will leave the state if a constitutional amendment appearing on the November ballot to hike taxes is successful, according to a survey conducted by Pioneer Institute.
Pioneer was invited to survey members of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts and the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Local chambers of commerce also participated in the survey, and a total of 133 individuals responded.
“The survey suggests that business owners and executives are beginning to realize the negative impacts on the economy and tax base of the tax hike amendment,” said Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios.
“Small business owners are nearing a breaking point following pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and now record high inflation,” added Christopher Carlozzi, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. “Instead of increasing taxes for job creators, Massachusetts must create an atmosphere that encourages economic growth and expansion.”
Of the respondents:
“I was surprised by both how many of our members are “pass-through” entities and how many are looking to sell or retire within the decade,” said Retailers Association of Massachusetts President Jon Hurst. “Those numbers should be a wake-up call that our Main Streets are in danger in coming years, and that our public policy leaders need to make sure the Commonwealth has tax and employment laws that will foster a whole new generation of entrepreneurs and risk takers.”
Pioneer Institute develops and communicates dynamic ideas that advance prosperity and a vibrant civic life in Massachusetts and beyond. Success for Pioneer is when the citizens of our state and nation prosper and our society thrives because we enjoy world-class options in education, healthcare, transportation and economic opportunity, and when our government is limited, accountable and transparent. Pioneer believes that America is at its best when our citizenry is well-educated, committed to liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise, and both willing and able to test their beliefs based on facts and the free exchange of ideas.
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Earlier this month, a Boston Globe article informed Boston residents that they may have to wait another four months before the rest of MBTA’s 4.7-mile Green Line Extension connecting Lechmere to Medford and Somerville is complete. The new extension was originally supposed to open last December. The date was moved to May, and it’s now expected to open in late summer, according to an MBTA spokesperson.
The Green Line extension past Lechmere was originally promised during the Big Dig in 1990, but was later put on hold due to going over budget. In 2007, the state began planning the extension again and in 2013 awarded a contract to White-Kiewit-Skanska to begin construction. In the best Big Dig tradition, the project was nearly scrapped due to budget overruns, with its price tag topping $3 billion due to a new approach the MBTA took towards construction that proved to be faulty. White-Kiewit-Skanaska were then terminated.
In 2016, with a new project manager, the project was scaled back and rebid. The commonwealth awarded a contract to GLX Constructors in 2017 to begin building the new extension with the total estimated budget of $2.28 billion. GLX Constructors is not a single company, but rather a team composed of five different companies. The five companies that comprise GLX are Fluor Corporation, Middlesex Corporation, Herzog Contractor, Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc, and STV Firm.
Construction on the Green Line Extension began in 2018 when the federal government released $100 million to help the MBTA finance the project as a part of the Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA), between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) that pledged the federal government would provide $996 million of the $2.28 billion budget. When the project started in 2018, according to Pioneer Institute’s MassOpenBooks, the MBTA paid GLX Constructors $52,171,499. In 2019 the MBTA paid GLX $127,441,654 and in 2020, the T paid another $265,373,640. From 2018 to 2020 the MBTA paid GLX Constructors a total of $444,986,793. During the same period from 2018 to 2020, the MBTA also paid GLX Pm-Cm Partners a total of $12,968,979. In total, the MBTA paid $457,955,772 to GLX vendors from 2018 to 2020 .
Somerville and Cambridge also pitched in a total of $75 million to help get the project started when it was in its planning stages in 2015. Until 2021, Somerville and Cambridge paid roughly $28 million towards the project. In November of 2021, the MBTA voted to cancel the additional $30 million from Somerville and Cambridge because the project was being completed under budget with GLX Project Manager John Dalton saying, “Based on where we stand in general on the project, all of the project’s primary risk exposures have been either avoided, transferred, mitigated or absorbed.” “We are well out of what I’ll consider the risk window for high-cost risks to the project.” Medford and Somerville residents may have to wait another four months until the Green Line Extension is operating, but the good news is that the project is coming in way under the original proposed budget of $3 billion and under the improved budget of $2.28 billion.
Mitchell Bove is a Roger Perry Government Transparency Intern at the Pioneer Institute for Summer 2022. He is a rising junior at Suffolk University with a major in U.S. History and minors in Media & Film.
Healthcare and social assistance are among the most important services; but did you know the category is also one of the fastest growing? Luckily for us, there’s no shortage of workers in this important industry.
According to Masseconomix, the sector grew by 34 percent since 2004 in Massachusetts.
So what are the counties that are seeing the most and least growth in this sector?
Figure 1: Sector Growth 2004 and 2020
As shown in Figure 1, the healthcare and social assistance sector was the commonwealth’s leading employer in 2004, and the trend has since accelerated. In 2004 the sector employed 538,081, and it rose to 722,988 in 2020, a near 35 percent increase.
For perspective, healthcare and social assistance has enjoyed a larger employment increase than the two next largest sectors combined.
Figure 2: Growth in Healthcare and social assistance sector since 2004
According to Figure 2 above, Suffolk and Middlesex saw the most employment in the aggregate in the healthcare sector; however, Nantucket, Berkshire, and Bristol sustained the most employment growth since 2004. The three counties recorded growths at 156 percent, 85 percent, and 51 percent, respectively.
Middlesex and Suffolk however recorded healthcare and social assistance as one of the top sectors for employment in 2004, and that continued to be the case in 2020.
Additionally, the healthcare industry in 2020 remained in the top three sectors by employment for the respective counties of Nantucket, with 731 people employed, and first spot for both the counties of Berkshire and Bristol at 19,383 and 50,164 people employed, respectively.
The counties with the lowest healthcare growth since 2004 were Worcester, Franklin, and Essex at 26 percent, 10 percent, and 9 percent respectively. It’s important to note however that despite this, healthcare and social assistance were some of the sectors with the largest growth rate.
Figure 3: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Worcester between 2004-2020
Figure 4: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Franklin between 2004-2020
Figure 5: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Essex between 2004-2020
According to Figures 3-5 above, healthcare and social assistance have consistently ranked in the top three sectors by employment growth since 2004 in Worcester, Franklin, and Essex Counties. In short, despite slower growth in these counties, healthcare and social assistance is still one of the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment.
Similarly, Nantucket, Bristol, and Berkshire, (the counties with the highest employment growth), all had healthcare and social assistance as one of the top three sectors for employment, and it ranked first in Bristol and Berkshire having it as its highest.
To conclude, healthcare and social assistance enjoy a comfortable spot as one of the top employment sectors in many counties. It has the highest employment growth in counties such as Nantucket and Bristol, It is the largest employer in populous counties such as Middlesex and Suffolk, and even in counties where it is growing more slowly, like Worcester and Franklin.
It’s important to note that between 2019 and 2020, the sector experienced a 4 percent contraction in employment throughout all the counties. Although this can be attributed to the COVID pandemic, as more data comes in, it’ll be interesting to see whether the employment trend in this sector continues in the direction it has for the last 16 years.
Etelson Alcius is a roger perry transparency intern with the Pioneer Institute. He is a incoming freshmen at the College of the Holy Cross, where he intends to double major in economics and computer science on a prelaw track. Feel free to reach out via email, linkedin, or write a letter to Pioneer’s Office in Boston.
“She’s a good girl. She helps me a lot. She has big, big dreams. I don’t have the money, but she has big dreams. I hope she’s going to get everything, but she works so hard. She works so hard in school.”
“Our family is needing to make some really big sacrifices because we believe this is important, and so, we’re basically going to do whatever it takes… Sometimes we look at each other and go ‘I don’t know if I can do it again another month…’”
“A lot of the families have to sacrifice and work multiple jobs… And just scraping together enough money to just make tuition, just the basics.”
“It is discriminatory, that parents who want to choose an alternative to public school for their children, would not in any way receive any compensation for that, whether it be tax credit, whether it be a voucher…”
In the 1840s, nativist movement leaders formed official political parties and local chapters of the national Native American Party (later the American Party), although they continued to be commonly known as the Know-Nothing Party. Politicians sought to insert provisions into state constitutions against Catholics who refused to renounce the pope. The Know-Nothing movement brought bigotry and hatred to a new level of violence and organization.
The party’s legacy endured in the post-Civil War era, with laws and constitutional amendments it supported, still today severely limiting parents’ educational choices. A federal constitutional amendment was proposed by Speaker of the House James Blaine prohibiting money raised by taxation in any State to be under the control of any religious sect; nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations. These were then named the Blaine Amendments of 1875.
in recent decades, often in response to challenges to school choice programs, the U.S. Supreme Court has demonstrated great interest in examining the issues of educational alternatives and attempts limit parental options. Massachusetts plays a key role in this debate. The Bay State was a key center of the Know-Nothing movement and has the oldest version of Anti-Aid Amendments in the nation, as well as a second such amendment approved in 1917. Two-fifths of Massachusetts residents are Catholic, and its Catholic schools outperform the state’s public schools, which are the best in the nation.
Majority of respondents pay taxes on the biggest portion of their income via individual returns, would be subject to the tax hike
BOSTON – Nearly three quarters (73 percent) of Massachusetts business leaders think business associates will leave the state if a constitutional amendment appearing on the November ballot to hike taxes is successful, according to a survey conducted by Pioneer Institute.
Pioneer was invited to survey members of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts and the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Local chambers of commerce also participated in the survey, and a total of 133 individuals responded.
“The survey suggests that business owners and executives are beginning to realize the negative impacts on the economy and tax base of the tax hike amendment,” said Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios.
“Small business owners are nearing a breaking point following pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and now record high inflation,” added Christopher Carlozzi, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. “Instead of increasing taxes for job creators, Massachusetts must create an atmosphere that encourages economic growth and expansion.”
Of the respondents:
“I was surprised by both how many of our members are “pass-through” entities and how many are looking to sell or retire within the decade,” said Retailers Association of Massachusetts President Jon Hurst. “Those numbers should be a wake-up call that our Main Streets are in danger in coming years, and that our public policy leaders need to make sure the Commonwealth has tax and employment laws that will foster a whole new generation of entrepreneurs and risk takers.”
Pioneer Institute develops and communicates dynamic ideas that advance prosperity and a vibrant civic life in Massachusetts and beyond. Success for Pioneer is when the citizens of our state and nation prosper and our society thrives because we enjoy world-class options in education, healthcare, transportation and economic opportunity, and when our government is limited, accountable and transparent. Pioneer believes that America is at its best when our citizenry is well-educated, committed to liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise, and both willing and able to test their beliefs based on facts and the free exchange of ideas.
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Earlier this month, a Boston Globe article informed Boston residents that they may have to wait another four months before the rest of MBTA’s 4.7-mile Green Line Extension connecting Lechmere to Medford and Somerville is complete. The new extension was originally supposed to open last December. The date was moved to May, and it’s now expected to open in late summer, according to an MBTA spokesperson.
The Green Line extension past Lechmere was originally promised during the Big Dig in 1990, but was later put on hold due to going over budget. In 2007, the state began planning the extension again and in 2013 awarded a contract to White-Kiewit-Skanska to begin construction. In the best Big Dig tradition, the project was nearly scrapped due to budget overruns, with its price tag topping $3 billion due to a new approach the MBTA took towards construction that proved to be faulty. White-Kiewit-Skanaska were then terminated.
In 2016, with a new project manager, the project was scaled back and rebid. The commonwealth awarded a contract to GLX Constructors in 2017 to begin building the new extension with the total estimated budget of $2.28 billion. GLX Constructors is not a single company, but rather a team composed of five different companies. The five companies that comprise GLX are Fluor Corporation, Middlesex Corporation, Herzog Contractor, Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc, and STV Firm.
Construction on the Green Line Extension began in 2018 when the federal government released $100 million to help the MBTA finance the project as a part of the Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA), between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) that pledged the federal government would provide $996 million of the $2.28 billion budget. When the project started in 2018, according to Pioneer Institute’s MassOpenBooks, the MBTA paid GLX Constructors $52,171,499. In 2019 the MBTA paid GLX $127,441,654 and in 2020, the T paid another $265,373,640. From 2018 to 2020 the MBTA paid GLX Constructors a total of $444,986,793. During the same period from 2018 to 2020, the MBTA also paid GLX Pm-Cm Partners a total of $12,968,979. In total, the MBTA paid $457,955,772 to GLX vendors from 2018 to 2020 .
Somerville and Cambridge also pitched in a total of $75 million to help get the project started when it was in its planning stages in 2015. Until 2021, Somerville and Cambridge paid roughly $28 million towards the project. In November of 2021, the MBTA voted to cancel the additional $30 million from Somerville and Cambridge because the project was being completed under budget with GLX Project Manager John Dalton saying, “Based on where we stand in general on the project, all of the project’s primary risk exposures have been either avoided, transferred, mitigated or absorbed.” “We are well out of what I’ll consider the risk window for high-cost risks to the project.” Medford and Somerville residents may have to wait another four months until the Green Line Extension is operating, but the good news is that the project is coming in way under the original proposed budget of $3 billion and under the improved budget of $2.28 billion.
Mitchell Bove is a Roger Perry Government Transparency Intern at the Pioneer Institute for Summer 2022. He is a rising junior at Suffolk University with a major in U.S. History and minors in Media & Film.
Healthcare and social assistance are among the most important services; but did you know the category is also one of the fastest growing? Luckily for us, there’s no shortage of workers in this important industry.
According to Masseconomix, the sector grew by 34 percent since 2004 in Massachusetts.
So what are the counties that are seeing the most and least growth in this sector?
Figure 1: Sector Growth 2004 and 2020
As shown in Figure 1, the healthcare and social assistance sector was the commonwealth’s leading employer in 2004, and the trend has since accelerated. In 2004 the sector employed 538,081, and it rose to 722,988 in 2020, a near 35 percent increase.
For perspective, healthcare and social assistance has enjoyed a larger employment increase than the two next largest sectors combined.
Figure 2: Growth in Healthcare and social assistance sector since 2004
According to Figure 2 above, Suffolk and Middlesex saw the most employment in the aggregate in the healthcare sector; however, Nantucket, Berkshire, and Bristol sustained the most employment growth since 2004. The three counties recorded growths at 156 percent, 85 percent, and 51 percent, respectively.
Middlesex and Suffolk however recorded healthcare and social assistance as one of the top sectors for employment in 2004, and that continued to be the case in 2020.
Additionally, the healthcare industry in 2020 remained in the top three sectors by employment for the respective counties of Nantucket, with 731 people employed, and first spot for both the counties of Berkshire and Bristol at 19,383 and 50,164 people employed, respectively.
The counties with the lowest healthcare growth since 2004 were Worcester, Franklin, and Essex at 26 percent, 10 percent, and 9 percent respectively. It’s important to note however that despite this, healthcare and social assistance were some of the sectors with the largest growth rate.
Figure 3: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Worcester between 2004-2020
Figure 4: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Franklin between 2004-2020
Figure 5: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Essex between 2004-2020
According to Figures 3-5 above, healthcare and social assistance have consistently ranked in the top three sectors by employment growth since 2004 in Worcester, Franklin, and Essex Counties. In short, despite slower growth in these counties, healthcare and social assistance is still one of the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment.
Similarly, Nantucket, Bristol, and Berkshire, (the counties with the highest employment growth), all had healthcare and social assistance as one of the top three sectors for employment, and it ranked first in Bristol and Berkshire having it as its highest.
To conclude, healthcare and social assistance enjoy a comfortable spot as one of the top employment sectors in many counties. It has the highest employment growth in counties such as Nantucket and Bristol, It is the largest employer in populous counties such as Middlesex and Suffolk, and even in counties where it is growing more slowly, like Worcester and Franklin.
It’s important to note that between 2019 and 2020, the sector experienced a 4 percent contraction in employment throughout all the counties. Although this can be attributed to the COVID pandemic, as more data comes in, it’ll be interesting to see whether the employment trend in this sector continues in the direction it has for the last 16 years.
Etelson Alcius is a roger perry transparency intern with the Pioneer Institute. He is a incoming freshmen at the College of the Holy Cross, where he intends to double major in economics and computer science on a prelaw track. Feel free to reach out via email, linkedin, or write a letter to Pioneer’s Office in Boston.
Survey of Business Sentiment: MA Income Tax Hike Would Lead to Employer Exodus
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, Graduated Income Tax, News, Press Releases, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity /by Editorial StaffMajority of respondents pay taxes on the biggest portion of their income via individual returns, would be subject to the tax hike
BOSTON – Nearly three quarters (73 percent) of Massachusetts business leaders think business associates will leave the state if a constitutional amendment appearing on the November ballot to hike taxes is successful, according to a survey conducted by Pioneer Institute.
Pioneer was invited to survey members of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts and the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Local chambers of commerce also participated in the survey, and a total of 133 individuals responded.
“The survey suggests that business owners and executives are beginning to realize the negative impacts on the economy and tax base of the tax hike amendment,” said Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios.
“Small business owners are nearing a breaking point following pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and now record high inflation,” added Christopher Carlozzi, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business. “Instead of increasing taxes for job creators, Massachusetts must create an atmosphere that encourages economic growth and expansion.”
Of the respondents:
“I was surprised by both how many of our members are “pass-through” entities and how many are looking to sell or retire within the decade,” said Retailers Association of Massachusetts President Jon Hurst. “Those numbers should be a wake-up call that our Main Streets are in danger in coming years, and that our public policy leaders need to make sure the Commonwealth has tax and employment laws that will foster a whole new generation of entrepreneurs and risk takers.”
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Pioneer Institute develops and communicates dynamic ideas that advance prosperity and a vibrant civic life in Massachusetts and beyond. Success for Pioneer is when the citizens of our state and nation prosper and our society thrives because we enjoy world-class options in education, healthcare, transportation and economic opportunity, and when our government is limited, accountable and transparent. Pioneer believes that America is at its best when our citizenry is well-educated, committed to liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise, and both willing and able to test their beliefs based on facts and the free exchange of ideas.
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The Green Line Extension Project Progress and Finances
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: MBTA, Blog: Transparency, Blog: Transportation /by Mitch BoveEarlier this month, a Boston Globe article informed Boston residents that they may have to wait another four months before the rest of MBTA’s 4.7-mile Green Line Extension connecting Lechmere to Medford and Somerville is complete. The new extension was originally supposed to open last December. The date was moved to May, and it’s now expected to open in late summer, according to an MBTA spokesperson.
The Green Line extension past Lechmere was originally promised during the Big Dig in 1990, but was later put on hold due to going over budget. In 2007, the state began planning the extension again and in 2013 awarded a contract to White-Kiewit-Skanska to begin construction. In the best Big Dig tradition, the project was nearly scrapped due to budget overruns, with its price tag topping $3 billion due to a new approach the MBTA took towards construction that proved to be faulty. White-Kiewit-Skanaska were then terminated.
In 2016, with a new project manager, the project was scaled back and rebid. The commonwealth awarded a contract to GLX Constructors in 2017 to begin building the new extension with the total estimated budget of $2.28 billion. GLX Constructors is not a single company, but rather a team composed of five different companies. The five companies that comprise GLX are Fluor Corporation, Middlesex Corporation, Herzog Contractor, Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc, and STV Firm.
Construction on the Green Line Extension began in 2018 when the federal government released $100 million to help the MBTA finance the project as a part of the Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA), between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) that pledged the federal government would provide $996 million of the $2.28 billion budget. When the project started in 2018, according to Pioneer Institute’s MassOpenBooks, the MBTA paid GLX Constructors $52,171,499. In 2019 the MBTA paid GLX $127,441,654 and in 2020, the T paid another $265,373,640. From 2018 to 2020 the MBTA paid GLX Constructors a total of $444,986,793. During the same period from 2018 to 2020, the MBTA also paid GLX Pm-Cm Partners a total of $12,968,979. In total, the MBTA paid $457,955,772 to GLX vendors from 2018 to 2020 .
Somerville and Cambridge also pitched in a total of $75 million to help get the project started when it was in its planning stages in 2015. Until 2021, Somerville and Cambridge paid roughly $28 million towards the project. In November of 2021, the MBTA voted to cancel the additional $30 million from Somerville and Cambridge because the project was being completed under budget with GLX Project Manager John Dalton saying, “Based on where we stand in general on the project, all of the project’s primary risk exposures have been either avoided, transferred, mitigated or absorbed.” “We are well out of what I’ll consider the risk window for high-cost risks to the project.” Medford and Somerville residents may have to wait another four months until the Green Line Extension is operating, but the good news is that the project is coming in way under the original proposed budget of $3 billion and under the improved budget of $2.28 billion.
Mitchell Bove is a Roger Perry Government Transparency Intern at the Pioneer Institute for Summer 2022. He is a rising junior at Suffolk University with a major in U.S. History and minors in Media & Film.
Healthcare dominates the job market.
/0 Comments/in Blog: Healthcare, Blog: Healthcare Transparency, Blog: Transparency, Healthcare, Middle Cities/ Urban /by Etelson AlciusHealthcare and social assistance are among the most important services; but did you know the category is also one of the fastest growing? Luckily for us, there’s no shortage of workers in this important industry.
According to Masseconomix, the sector grew by 34 percent since 2004 in Massachusetts.
So what are the counties that are seeing the most and least growth in this sector?
Figure 1: Sector Growth 2004 and 2020
As shown in Figure 1, the healthcare and social assistance sector was the commonwealth’s leading employer in 2004, and the trend has since accelerated. In 2004 the sector employed 538,081, and it rose to 722,988 in 2020, a near 35 percent increase.
For perspective, healthcare and social assistance has enjoyed a larger employment increase than the two next largest sectors combined.
Figure 2: Growth in Healthcare and social assistance sector since 2004
According to Figure 2 above, Suffolk and Middlesex saw the most employment in the aggregate in the healthcare sector; however, Nantucket, Berkshire, and Bristol sustained the most employment growth since 2004. The three counties recorded growths at 156 percent, 85 percent, and 51 percent, respectively.
Middlesex and Suffolk however recorded healthcare and social assistance as one of the top sectors for employment in 2004, and that continued to be the case in 2020.
Additionally, the healthcare industry in 2020 remained in the top three sectors by employment for the respective counties of Nantucket, with 731 people employed, and first spot for both the counties of Berkshire and Bristol at 19,383 and 50,164 people employed, respectively.
The counties with the lowest healthcare growth since 2004 were Worcester, Franklin, and Essex at 26 percent, 10 percent, and 9 percent respectively. It’s important to note however that despite this, healthcare and social assistance were some of the sectors with the largest growth rate.
Figure 3: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Worcester between 2004-2020
Figure 4: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Franklin between 2004-2020
Figure 5: Employment growth by the top sectors of employment in Essex between 2004-2020
According to Figures 3-5 above, healthcare and social assistance have consistently ranked in the top three sectors by employment growth since 2004 in Worcester, Franklin, and Essex Counties. In short, despite slower growth in these counties, healthcare and social assistance is still one of the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment.
Similarly, Nantucket, Bristol, and Berkshire, (the counties with the highest employment growth), all had healthcare and social assistance as one of the top three sectors for employment, and it ranked first in Bristol and Berkshire having it as its highest.
To conclude, healthcare and social assistance enjoy a comfortable spot as one of the top employment sectors in many counties. It has the highest employment growth in counties such as Nantucket and Bristol, It is the largest employer in populous counties such as Middlesex and Suffolk, and even in counties where it is growing more slowly, like Worcester and Franklin.
It’s important to note that between 2019 and 2020, the sector experienced a 4 percent contraction in employment throughout all the counties. Although this can be attributed to the COVID pandemic, as more data comes in, it’ll be interesting to see whether the employment trend in this sector continues in the direction it has for the last 16 years.
Etelson Alcius is a roger perry transparency intern with the Pioneer Institute. He is a incoming freshmen at the College of the Holy Cross, where he intends to double major in economics and computer science on a prelaw track. Feel free to reach out via email, linkedin, or write a letter to Pioneer’s Office in Boston.