The rise in the number of people suddenly seeking unemployment is expected to add to the per-employee cost of unemployment insurance. This insurance is paid by employers — at a rate that's already among the highest in the nation — and it could go up by 60% next year, according to the…

Even then, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation projected the state’s tax collections in fiscal year 2021 could fall $6 billion short of earlier estimates.

On April 28, Governor Baker announced the formation of a 19-member Advisory Board to determine the best ways to open the economy. Chaired by Lt. Governor Polito and Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Michael Kennealy, along with representatives from businesses, public health and…

McAnneny now expects the shutdown to raise the state unemployment rate to 22 percent by the end of June. She projects that 323,000 jobs will be recovered by June 2021, but employment is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels before 2024. That will have a devastating effect on the state budget…

McAnneny said the foundation’s analysis was completed before Gov. Charlie Baker released his plan for the state’s reopening on Monday. She said the foundation’s analysis assumes that economic activity will resume this summer, but it will be slow and uneven, resulting in lower tax revenues. She said…

The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a budget watchdog group backed by businesses, estimated the state’s revenue for the next fiscal year could drop $3.9 billion, or 15 percent, below past projections. New York said revenues could fall by as much as $15 billion in its fiscal year that started…

Launched by Massachusetts Governor Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker in partnership with the One8 Foundation, the Massachusetts COVID-19 Relief Fund will serve essential frontline workers and vulnerable populations across the state facing homelessness, food insecurity and loss of critical services…

This time around, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation forecasts unemployment approaching 18 percent by the end of June, with 570,000 jobs disappearing in recent weeks. Many of those jobs will be recovered by next spring, but total employment won’t return to pre-crisis levels until 2022, the…

Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung told Boston Public Radio on Thursday economic forecasts from Moody's Analytics and the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation put the state's economic reopening into July. According to a recent report issued by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, "…

Andrew Bagley with the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says the organization predicts an ultimate 18% unemployment rate in the Bay State. Bagley says the expected V-shaped recovery now looks more like a W with damage from the virus — like job losses — worse than initially thought. "The criteria…