Middle Cities

Read news coverage in The Enterprise of Brockton. Convention Center Fund surplus would also modernize delivery of basic services, create incentive for municipal reforms BOSTON – A new Pioneer Institute report calls for the creation of an Infrastructure Investment Fund (IIF) that...

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...

The Mayor of New Bedford– one of Pioneer’s Middle Cities– wrote an interesting op-ed that ran in the Boston Globe. He calls for a statewide task force to develop a new framework for public union contracts in the future. He outlines the...

Press Release on Pioneer’s new paper which takes a look at economic growth in Massachusetts’ Middle Cities.

This paper advocates for an approach to benchmarking that recognizes meaningful differences within groups (like the Middle Cities) that may be lost in a broader comparison or statewide context. Below we discuss three different examples of this method, first looking at different...

Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts’ Middle Cities: A Look at Economic Growth Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: A Look at Economic Growth BOSTON- A new policy paper from Pioneer Institute?s Middle Cities Initiative calls for citizens and city officials to shift their...

Lessons in Effective Fiscal Management Author(s): Steve Poftak — Publication date: 2008-04-01 Category: Economic Opportunity Abstract: The Middle Cities Initiative seeks to develop concrete policies to help the Middle Cities grow. One foundational element for economic growth is effective fiscal management by...