Brockton

The concentration of businesses in the city of Brockton has risen steadily, but employment levels still haven’t returned to pre-Great Recession levels, according to Pioneer’s Brockton City Spotlight. City Spotlights is a new product developed by Pioneer Institute using 16 years of data from its MassEconomixTM and MassAnalysisTM databases.

Read news coverage of this report in The Springfield Republican, The Brockton Enterprise, The Taunton Daily Gazette, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise. Taunton and Leominster buck the trend, see population and incomes rise, educational outcomes improve and crime decline BOSTON...

Massachusetts Deserves Better Education Leadership Education Secretary Matt Malone’s views on charter schools characterized by bigotry and demonization Can Matt Malone provide educational leadership in a state with the nation’s most successful charter public school sector? Emails recently obtained by Pioneer Institute...