Advancing low-income fares beyond Boston

The Gateway Cities Journal

Jun 25, 2021

Since 2017, the FMCB has been pushing hard on the agency to provide discounts to low-income riders. In one of their final votes, they choose to instruct agency staff to prepare scenarios for a pilot program. On the one hand, this last-ditch effort makes sense. However, from the Gateway City perspective, the board’s actions are disappointing and a bit perplexing.

Budget Update: What Gateway Cities Need to Know

The Gateway Cities Journal

May 24, 2021

This week the FY 2022 budget moves to the Senate for debate. MassINC is tracking several amendments that are critically important for Gateway Cities, including funding for Early College expansion, neighborhood stabilization, small business assistance, and Regional Transit Authorities.

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Policy Center
May 17, 2021 Policy Center

Help us continue to report on the news that matters most to you - local, civic issues that affect Massachusetts residents from the Berkshires to Province Town and everything in between.

House funds Early College, but is it enough for growth?

Policy Center
May 10, 2021 Policy Center

Failing to meet the full need would send the wrong signal at a sensitive moment for Early College expansion.

Regional Transit Authorities Win Funding Victory in House Budget

The Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
May 5, 2021 Policy Center

Public transportation service for over half the state’s population — the half not served by the MBTA — won a precedent-setting victory last week during the House budget debate. As Jim Kolesar from Berkshire Interfaith Organizing says, “Full funding for the RTAs, including our Berkshire Regional Transit Authority, seems the minimum that we should be

Addressing College Completion Gaps Starts with Stable Funding

The Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
Apr 20, 2021 Policy Center

Establishing a strong precedent of fully covering the costs of Early College as programs grow is critical to ensuring that communities and state government are aligned when it comes to executing on this strategic initiative.

Early College as A Disruptive Force for Equity in the Post-Pandemic Era

Policy Center
Apr 14, 2021 Policy Center

On Wednesday, April 14 MassINC released new research on Early College, an up-and-coming initiative that is making significant gains in the higher education equity gap. No single strategy offers a silver bullet, but Early College has a proven track-record of increasing post-secondary completion, and it has clear potential to interrupt structural inequality in education. Educators,

A call to support the expansion of the Early College Initiative

Nearly 160 education, business, and community leaders write to expand and deepen the Massachusetts Early College Initiative

Policy Center
Apr 8, 2021 Policy Center

Nearly 160 education, business, and other community leaders write to expand and deepen the Massachusetts Early College Initiative

New MassINC report lays out strategy for empowering entrepreneurs of color post-pandemic

Report release serves as kick-off event for new Coalition for an Equitable Economy

Policy Center
Mar 30, 2021 Policy Center

A new report from MassINC and the newly-formed Coalition for an Equitable Economy lays out the needed elements of a plan to strengthen opportunities for entrepreneurs of color post-COVID.

Unleashing the Potential of Entrepreneurs of Color in Massachusetts

A Blueprint for Economic Growth and Equitable Recovery

Policy Center
Mar 29, 2021 Policy Center

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Paul Grogan, Former President of The Boston Foundation
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Helen Chin Schlichte Former Public Administrator; President Emeritus, South Cove Manor at Quincy Point
MassINC's long-term dedication to Gateway Cities makes them a valuable resource to all of our communities. They are a true thought partner. They go the distance to help others appreciate our unique opportunities, needs, and perspectives.

Tim McGourthy Chief Financial Officer, City of Worcester
MassINC serves as a credible, thoughtful resource for all of us who are invested in the future of the Commonwealth. Its emphasis on careful analysis that is grounded in data, research, and polling makes an important contribution to and helps elevate the conversation about the challenges and opportunities facing the region.

Trevor Pollack, Manager of Special Projects for the Barr Foundation
The potential of Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities is limitless. MassINC’s dedicated work in promoting these cities has been, and will continue to be, instrumental in their individual and collective success.

Jay Ash
Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development and former chair of the Gateway Cities Innovation Institute
MassINC has always provided research showing the detrimental impact of the state’s unforgiving criminal justice system on our communities. Their polling confirmed that the public understood the need for change in our system. That criminal justice reform is at the forefront of bipartisan local and national debates today is in no small measure due to MassINC’s persistent and fair commitment to the issue.

Juliette Kayyem Faculty Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Founder Kayyem Solutions LLC
Through my partnership with MassINC, the Building On What Works Coalition is working to unite a diverse collection of civic leaders around an urgent call to encourage the state to act on the progress that has been made ensuring all children in Massachusetts have a true chance to succeed in the state’s economy. MassINC’s research and commitment to data driven public policy are helping to give the children of Massachusetts a better education.

Kim Driscoll Mayor of Salem
MassINC's work with the Gateway Cities is unmatched. As Eastern Bank strives to help businesses in these communities thrive, MassINC has been a tremendous partner, providing data-driven research and affirming that these cities are full of opportunities.

Bob Rivers Chairman and CEO of Eastern Bank
When MassINC speaks, it’s well worth listening. After all, the nonpartisan think tank has established itself as a thoughtful, careful, credible voice on public policy in Massachusetts.

Scot Lehigh Boston Globe Op-Ed Columnist
Few organizations in the country have better understood the important role of governance reform and accountability in education policy and economic development than MassINC.

Bruce Katz Former Vice President and Founding Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution
[MassINC's] understanding of the complexity of the challenges facing the state’s older cities, its belief in the opportunities that present themselves in those communities, and its advocacy of the role that public higher education can and should play in them, has added to the understanding that policy makers need to have as they move our state toward the future.

Jean MacCormack

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A Blueprint for Economic Growth and Equitable Recovery

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