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Dec 15, 2022
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMPETITIVENESS
 MTF President Eileen McAnneny discusses a new report on Massachusetts demographics. ...
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMPETITIVENESS
Dec 14, 2022
CHILD CARE & EDUCATION
Overall, the lack of child care options in Massachusetts is costing working families, some of whom are spending 20% to 40% of their annual income on programs. The average cost of child care is more than $20,000 a year in Massachusetts, the most...
CHILD CARE & EDUCATION
Dec 14, 2022
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMPETITIVENESS
The jobs are there in Massachusetts, but nobody seems to want them, says a new report, which shows there are twice as many job openings as unemployed people in the state. The report, released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation,......
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMPETITIVENESS
Dec 14, 2022
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMPETITIVENESS
An overwhelming outmigration of Bay Staters, an aging state population and a shrinking number of international college students are among the demographic trends imperiling the economic growth potential and labor market in Massachusetts, a new report...
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMPETITIVENESS
Dec 12, 2022
BUDGET & TAXES > Budget > FY 2023
Doug Howgate, executive vice president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and a member of Healey’s transition team, said the state’s budget office will be crucial to Healey’s early work. “ANF sits at this center point of what the governor...
BUDGET & TAXES > Budget > FY 2023
Nov 24, 2022
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
“It’s unlikely that the Legislature would make any significant moves in the short term,” said Eileen McAnneny, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. “It could be a couple of years before they see how this all plays fiscally.” ...
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
Oct 31, 2022
BUDGET & TAXES > Budget > FY 2023
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Executive Vice President Doug Howgate, who will soon take over as the group’s next leader, said the first three months of tax collections historically “bore little connection to revenue trends in subsequent months.”...
BUDGET & TAXES > Budget > FY 2023
Oct 27, 2022
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
But during the press conference, Eileen McAnneny, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said the structure of Ballot Question 1, which requires a constitutional amendment to take effect, is “really problematic. ”Should unexpected...
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
Oct 26, 2022
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
“(The) Massachusetts economy is in a period of transition, we know we’re against a backdrop of high inflation, we have labor shortages, an uptick of remote work, and employers and employees have more options of where to locate than ever before,”...
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
Oct 26, 2022
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax
Surtax supporters have dubbed the measure the “fair share amendment,” but Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Eileen McAnneny said Wednesday during a press conference hosted by the Coalition to Stop the Tax Hike Amendment that the “notion...
BUDGET & TAXES > Taxes > Income Tax