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Oct 26, 2021
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2022
Baker split his proposal to use $2.9 billion of state government’s ARPA funds and its surplus tax revenue into separate bills. In an analysis published Monday afternoon, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation said the House Ways and Means Committee’s...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2022
Oct 21, 2021
TRANSPORTATION
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation reported recently that the MBTA could face a deficit as high as $400 million in its yearly budget that begins in 2023 and a $13 billion shortfall for core infrastructure improvements it plans to make over the...
TRANSPORTATION
Oct 14, 2021
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2022
Chakrabarti and Stacy were brought together by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation for a discussion about an equitable economic recovery as part of the think tank’s forum series focused on ARPA. MTF in May published a report titled Closing the...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2022
Oct 07, 2021
TRANSPORTATION
A Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation report published in September cautioned that the MBTA could face “fiscal calamity” in several years if the agency does not substantially overhaul its finances or if lawmakers do not decide to steer more dollars...
TRANSPORTATION
Oct 03, 2021
TRANSPORTATION
Senate President Karen Spilka this week stomped all over the idea of raising taxes or fees to generate more money for the MBTA: “So I’m not certain that there’s a need for even more money. I have not heard that from a single person,” she said,...
TRANSPORTATION
Sep 30, 2021
TRANSPORTATION
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation recently released a report that found the T would need $1.25 billion in new annual revenue to meet its capital and operating needs in the coming years. ...
TRANSPORTATION
Sep 30, 2021
EDUCATION
Now is the time for the education establishment to embrace the greater foundational change that is needed to deliver for students, even if it makes adults in the system uncomfortable. Despite their long-held view that money alone will fix the...
EDUCATION
Sep 30, 2021
HEALTH CARE
A 2018 report by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation estimated the cost of lost productivity in the state due to people unable to work, foregone income due to fatalities, absenteeism and "presenteeism," and excess health care costs at nearly $10...
HEALTH CARE
Sep 30, 2021
TRANSPORTATION
Tuesday's derailment is the latest in a series of problems on the T, from an escalator malfunction this weekend to a collision in July to another derailment in March that caused all new Orange and Red line train cars to be pulled from service....
TRANSPORTATION
Sep 27, 2021
TRANSPORTATION
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation warned earlier this month the T could be facing a “fiscal calamity” that would require $1.25 billion in new annual revenue just to meet operating and capital needs. That does not include $2 billion in...
TRANSPORTATION