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Hampden County has experienced decline in its manufacturing sector, a former backbone of its economy. However, the county has still experienced this in spite of this, showing growth in new sectors.

A recent study from economist Evgenia Gorina, published in the journal State and Local Government Review, found a positive relationship between a local government’s reliance on property taxes as a revenue source and how well-funded their pensions are. In other words, local...

Case Studies Describe Best Practices Of Two Successful Western Massachusetts Charter Public Schools Schools are affiliated with, use approach developed by SABIS, an education management organization BOSTON – The reasons why two western Massachusetts charter public schools that contract with a for-profit education management...

This report surveys 14 Massachusetts cities outside the immediate Boston metropolitan market, which other studies have identified as “weak market” or “gateway” cities. A number of the Commonwealth’s cities have had difficulty adapting to large-scale changes in the national and global economies....