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Learning Uninterrupted: Supporting Positive Culture and Behavior in Schools
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Education
This report states the negative effects of school suspension and expulsion. It then proposes alternative discipline practices to support a positive and safe culture within schools that encourages students to engage in good behavior....
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Keeping Massachusetts working for workers: policy gains in 2018 and possibilities beyond
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Massachusetts workers now have a $15 minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, and an increasing income tax credit. The government can further prevent wage theft and make more workers eligible for overtime pay....
The regional impact of an $11 per hour minimum wage
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
The report lists the cities in Massachusetts with numbers of workers directly affected, indirectly affected and amount of wages affected by minimum wage increase....
Declines in work supports for low-income parents
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
This factsheet highlights the decline in work support for low-income parents in Massachusetts over the past fifteen years. Funding cuts for early education, childcare, occupational education, and job training assistance have reduced access to workforce development and career opportunities....
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Tending to the nest egg: plan could help nonprofit workers build retirement security.
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
When employers offer retirement plans, employee nearly universally participate, but small and non-profit employers tend not to provide retirement plans. This report explores how to expand access to retirement plans for workers at these businesses....
Towards Equity: School funding reform in Massachusetts
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Education
Massachusetts Has Significant Achievement Gaps for Disadvantaged Youth and youth of color in 4th Grade Reading, with policy changes, chapter 70 aid will grow with a large amount....
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How Paid family & Medical Leave Impacts Working Mothers
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States, California
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report examines the impact of Paid Family & Medical Leave (PFML) on working mothers, focusing on California's PFML program. PFML policies, which provide job protections and partial wage replacement, aim to help families by allowing workers to take maternity leave, attend to their...
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Excellence for all: Supporting English Language Learners in Massachusetts
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Education
English Language Learners (ELL) are poorly served by the Massachusetts public education system. This report provides evidence-based strategies and recommendations to support ELL students' academic achievement, evaluate current educational policies, and implement reforms. ...
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Maintaining an Effective Transportation System
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility
This factsheet discusses the economic and social benefits of an effective transportation system in Massachusetts and highlights the need for increased investment productivity and improved transit accessibility. The factsheet also addresses the state of bridges and roads and the benefits...
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Licenses for Immigrant Drivers in Massachusetts
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Public Safety
This brief examines the positive impacts that allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses would create. The brief references studies demonstrate that the provision of licenses creates safer roads, and access to car insurance, enhances public safety, advances racial...
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Income Growth and Gateway Cities: what happened and is there a path back to broadly shared prosperity?
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
This report examines the decline in income growth and shared prosperity in Gateway cities, mid-sized urban areas in Massachusetts that historically served as regional economic centers. It shows that wages have not kept pace with productivity since the 1970s, leading to income stagnation...
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State and Local Impact of Raising the Minimal Wage To $ 15 in Massachusetts
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This brief looks at the state and local impact of a $15 minimum wage if it were phased in at a rate of $1 per year from 2019 until 2022. It finds that both low- and middle-class families benefit from an increase in the minimum wage....
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Massachusetts Poverty Rate Flat, Median Income Growth Slowed in 2017
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report looks at the economic health of Massachusetts families. They find Massachusetts' poverty rate has not changed. Social security and refundable tax credits help keep millions people out of poverty. Income of workers of Middle-class have increased....
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Incarceration Trends in Massachusetts: Long-Term Increases
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Civil Rights
The infographic examines the impacts of crime laws implemented in Massachusetts on prison populations and recent reforms that have decreased the number of inmates, especially drug offenders. The document highlights the cost savings from reducing incarceration and suggests reallocating...
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A promise of Equity: Designing a debt free higher education program that works for everyone
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Education
The State budget for college education has been cut, leading to higher tuition fees. This reports various ways to make higher education debt free in the state....
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Balancing Work and Family: The Economic Effects of Earned Paid Sick Time
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families, Health
This brief examines challenges faced by working families and the role that earned paid sick time can play in helping families meet those challenges. It finds that paid sick time allows families to meet basic needs, increases long-term employment, and prevents unnecessary health expenses....
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FAQ: the Massachusetts $15 Minimum Wage Proposal
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Increasing the minimum wage to $15 will raise the wages of a large portion of workers from both low- and middle-income families. All workers of races the ethnicities will benefit from this minimum wage increase....
Uplifting the Whole Child: Using wraparound services to overcome social barriers to learning.
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Education
Wraparound services offered within schools are increasingly improtant for students and their families. This report analyzes the cases of CAS, TACSI, and CHS models to providing Wraparound services....
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Documenting Success: Health Reform in Massachusetts and the Nation
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Health
The report investigates the state of MA's healthcare reforms. Health reforms in the state have led to increases in health insurance coverage rates and health outcomes....
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Teens, Employment, and the Minimum Wage
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Income from teen workers makes up a significant portion of family income. This brief looks at who teen workers are, their contributions to family income, how a subminimum wage could affect teen workers, and whether there have been adverse effects on teen employment from minimum wage...
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What Does Massachusetts Transportation Funding Support and What Are the Revenue Sources?
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level State
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement
The Commonwealth Transportation Fund (CTF) and the Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund (MTTF) are two financial instruments for funding the Department of Transportation. This reports makes recommendations for improving these funding processes....
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Funding Opportunities: Services that help prevent kids in the child welfare system from entering the juvenile justice system.
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Education, Health
This report focuses on how state budgets can help kids with family support, services for families, family resource centers, DCF caseworkers ,DCF training, Child advocate, schools, and Children's behavioral health initiative....
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Obstacles on the road to opportunity: Finding a way forward
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report investigates economic opportunity in the state. The report shows the opportunity the state provides, obstacles children encountered, obstacles communities encountered, how to remove obstacles, and new ways to ensure opportunity....
Direct Certification for School Meals: Feeding Students, Counting Kids, Funding Schools
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Food, Education, Health, Children & Families
This report discusses the Direct Certification program, which identifies low-income students eligible for free meals. The program faces challenges in accurately counting eligible students and securing funding. The paper suggests solutions such as expanding the matching system, resolving...
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Losing Momentum: march towards health insurance for all Massachusetts residents stalls
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) Massachusetts
Source MassBudget
Policy Areas Health
Health insurance coverage for people in Massachusetts is far ahead of other states, but the progress is moving slowly with remaining barriers....
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