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Sep 24, 2025
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Sep 24, 2025
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Please join MTF for our September Member Briefing, which will include a review of two recent Policy Fact Sheets on the structure and financing of the unemployment insurance system, a summary of the policy actions taken to address the demand for benefits during the pandemic, and the…
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Aug 27, 2025
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Aug 27, 2025
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LOOK CLOSELY at how Massachusetts is growing, and a pattern emerges. It’s visible in the families opening small businesses in places like Lawrence and Springfield, in the surge of young workers entering fields like health care, construction, and climate tech, and in the numbers: Nearly 80 percent…
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Aug 14, 2025
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Aug 14, 2025
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The state’s UI system is still feeling the impact of significant unemployment during the pandemic, which resulted in thousands of additional individuals receiving UI benefits for an extended period. By April 2020, the state’s unemployment had skyrocketed to 17.8 percent, growing more than fivefold…
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Jan 16, 2025
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Jan 16, 2025
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This is the second installment of the MTF Competitiveness Index, which is designed to provide residents, employers, and policymakers with a holistic assessment of how Massachusetts compares to our regional and economic competitor states across 27 different metrics in four categories of…
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Sep 23, 2024
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Sep 23, 2024
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In spite of unanimous passage by both the House and the Senate, in the final days of the legislative session a compromise economic development bill failed to reach the Governor’s desk. While the two versions of the bill differ significantly on policy proposals, the framework for both bills is the…
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Sep 15, 2024
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Sep 15, 2024
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And that, according to the Massachusetts Competitiveness Index Report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, UMass Amherst Donahue Institute and Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, has been our high-wage, high-knowledge industries, stemming from the historically close ties…
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Sep 11, 2024
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Sep 11, 2024
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Doug Howgate, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said the data show that both wealthy families and lower-income working class families are leaving the state, while families that land in the middle seem more willing to stay.“The biggest outmigrants are at the top end and the lowest…
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Sep 10, 2024
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Sep 10, 2024
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The analysis by the Boston-based Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation comes as policymakers on Beacon Hill seek to stem that population loss, and even as agreement on Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s signature economic development bill remains frustratingly out of reach.“There is broad consensus that…
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Sep 09, 2024
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Sep 09, 2024
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How does Massachusetts stack up in the economic battle among states? A new benchmark offers an in-depth look.
Unlike many competitive rankings, the MTF index tracks a broad set of metrics. The results underscore the sometimes-overlooked fact that Massachusetts’ overall competitive standing is solidly in the middle of the pack.The MTF hopes that its benchmark, to be updated annually, can inform policy…
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Sep 09, 2024
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Sep 09, 2024
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MTF's 2024 Massachusetts Competitiveness Index Report is designed to put forward a framework to assess how Massachusetts stacks up compared to other states, key economic and geographic competitors, and itself.The report looks at 26 different metrics organized into four critical areas:•Economic…
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