New Skills for a New Economy

Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Sheila Palma, John Comings, Johan Uvin, W. Neal Fogg, Maricel Santos and Lisa Soricone

According to this new groundbreaking report from MassINC, more than a third (1.1 million) of Massachusetts’s 3.2 million workers are ill equipped to meet the demands of the state’s rapidly changing economy. This threatens the state’s ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance. read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy, Research

Opportunity Knocks

Training the Commonwealth's Workers for the New Economy

Ralph Whitehead, John D. Donahue and Lisa M. Lynch

With the recent passage of the Workforce Investment Act in Washington, states have more freedom than ever before to set their own objectives in job training policy and pursue creative new ways to reach their goals. While the new federal policy doesn’t force states to comprehensively reform themselves, it does loosen the reigns so that read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy

The Changing Workforce

Immigrants and the New Economy in Massachusetts

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Neeta Fogg, W. Neal Fogg, Julia Kroshko, Sheila Palma, Paul Suozzo and Christopher Harrington

The Massachusetts economy may be booming, but have you ever wondered where local companies, large and small, are finding their new employees? The answer will surprise you. The Changing Workforce, a joint research project of MassINC and Citizens Bank, discovered that since the mid-1980s foreign immigrants, not native-born workers, account for an astounding 82 percent read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Research

Prisons and Sentencing in Massachusetts

Waging a More Effective Fight Against Crime

Robert Keough

Does Massachusetts need more prison space to keep crime in check and improve public safety? Who’s in prison now? Are we filling our prisons with the right people? The answers contained in this investigative report on our corrections system may surprise you. For instance, contrary to popular perception an inflow of low-level drug offenders is read more

Topic(s): Criminal Justice, Strong Communities

The Road Ahead

Emerging Threats to the Massachusetts Economy

Andy Sum, Anwiti Bahuguna, Neeta Fogg, W. Neal Fogg, Sheila Palma and Paul Suozzo

The report includes detailed analysis on the economic condition of workers and families in Massachusetts, the soaring costs of housing and the state’s high personal tax burden, the state’s slow labor force growth rates, the troubling out-migration of young, college-educated workers to other states, the growing trends of income inequality across families and across regions, read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Economic Development

Lessons Learned

25 Years of State Economic Policy

Frank T Keefe, Joseph D. Alviani, Alden S Raine and Mark E. Robinson

Are you interested in cutting through the partisan rhetoric about the state’s role in economic policy? Would you like to know what some of the state’s most experienced policy-makers–from both parties–would say about economic policy if you could get them around a table working as a group? If so, you’ll be fascinated by this report–the read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Economic Development

Closing the Gap

Raising Skills to Raise Wages

Edward Moscovitch

This report is a primer on the three vital rungs of our state’s workforce development system: adult basic education, job training programs, and our community college system. It received widespread media coverage, and is now inspiring numerous efforts to improve the state’s disparate efforts to empower citizens to improve their education and skill levels. Here read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, Economic Development, New Skills for a New Economy

Criminal Justice in Massachusetts

The Public's View

MassINC

MassINC’s report Criminal Justice in Massachusetts: Putting Crime Control First, posed a simple question: “What policies would reduce crime?” For answers, we turned to nationally recognized crime policy expert Mark Kleiman of UCLA (formerly of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government) and his colleagues at BOTEC Analysis Corporation. The report offered a comprehensive read more

Topic(s): Criminal Justice, Public Opinion, Research

Criminal Justice in Massachusetts

Putting Crime Control First

Mark A. R. Kleiman, Ryan Wilson, Amy Solomon, Lowry Heuslen, Joel Epstein, Michael W. Forcier and David Boyum

In Massachusetts, as across the country, crime is at the top of the public agenda. Yet crime control — how to actually reduce the current and future number of crimes and criminals — does not receive the level of serious policy attention it deserves. Opportunities to reduce crime are systematically neglected, as policy making is read more

Topic(s): Criminal Justice, Strong Communities

The State of the American Dream in New England

Andy Sum, Neeta Fogg, W. Neal Fogg and Paul Harrington

MassINC’s first policy report asked the region’s best labor market economists one simple question: what has happened to families in New England economically over the past 15 years? Their answers provide reams of useful information for any candidate for office. Want to know the median family income in Massachusetts in 1979, 1989 and 1996? Want read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Strong Communities, Economic Development, Research

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