Doug Howgate, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, supported the governor's bill. In prepared testimony, he told Revenue Committee members that while the state's economic and policy landscape has changed in three key ways since the...

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget development process is well underway, but with about 4 months remaining in FY 2023 this brief takes a fresh look at the state’s current fiscal picture. Based on current spending and revenue collections to date, the...

Will MBTA Labor Shortages Impede its Future? Like transit agencies across the nation, the MBTA is struggling to find the talent it needs to deliver full bus and rapid transit services today, let alone the expanded services being planned or...

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Members can register here, and non-members, please contact MTF Membership Director Debbie Carroll for more information!  ...

Members can register here, and non-members, please contact MTF Membership Director Debbie Carroll for more information! ...

IF YOU HAVE young children, or know anyone who does, chances are you’ve noticed that the Commonwealth’s child care sector is in a major state of crisis. Classrooms are closing, waitlists are growing, tuition costs are soaring, and educators are...

The average cost of child care is more than $20,000 a year in Massachusetts, the most expensive state in the nation, only behind Washington, D.C., and well above the national average of $15,888, according to a recent report from the Massachusetts...

Since December of 2021, the state has appropriated close to $8 billion in combined federal Fiscal Recovery Funds (FRF) and Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 and 2022 surplus resources to support a range of COVID recovery and economic development initiatives....

Low wages for educators in the field have left many centers without adequate professional support. In turn, according to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, the lack of qualified workers in areas of child care has cost Massachusetts families...