Update
The latest releases, insights, events, and articles from across MassINC.
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Positioning Gateway City leaders to take the lead on digital equity
While leaders responded to their residents’ most acute digital equity needs during the pandemic, the issue appears to be receding among the many competing challenges facing Gateway Cities. We can’t allow this to fall out of sight again, especially with half a billion dollars from the federal infrastructure bill coming to Massachusetts to help communities implement durable solutions.
July 7, 2022
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Poll: Massachusetts residents support policies to make transportation cleaner, more equitable, and more affordable.
New report from The MassINC Polling Group finds Massachusetts residents support policies to make transportation cleaner, more equitable, and more affordable.
June 28, 2022
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Committee’s ED bill is a big deal for Gateway Cities and equitable economic growth
Learn what the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies’ Economic Development bill means for HDIP and inclusive entrepreneurship in Gateway Cities.
June 24, 2022
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State has a lot more to do to keep students and educators safe from COVID
Read Steve Koczela’s opinion piece in the Boston Globe on COVID safety in schools, featuring a mix of testing data, “lost day” estimates, and polling results.
June 10, 2022
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This is the moment to make transformative investments
The TDI program has been highly effective in Gateway Cities closer to Boston with relatively strong real estate markets. But the impact has been minimal in weaker markets outside of I-495, where Massachusetts desperately needs new sources of economic growth. Now is the moment to do right by the communities that state economic development policy has neglected for far too long.
June 9, 2022
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Massachusetts’ failure to forestall growing segregation
MassINC Education Equity Fellow, Simone Ngongi-Lukula, argues for integrating Massachusetts schools and initiatives that could forestall growing segregation.
May 24, 2022
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Senate budget key to future of housing and transportation in Gateway Cities
The Gateway Cities Journal
May 23, 2022
