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Andre Leroux offers testimony to Joint Committee on Transportation
The pandemic has permanently changed the way many residents think about where they want to live and work. This offers an unprecedented opportunity for our Gateway Cities to reposition themselves as regional hubs, but this will only be possible if they become multimodal communities anchored by strong regional transit systems.
August 3, 2021
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Gateway Cities battle the digital divide
At this point last summer, Gateway City educators were furiously at work trying to ensure that all students would have computers and reliable internet service when school resumed in the fall. Their herculean efforts demonstrated that we can temporarily narrow the divide, but a lot of work remains to find durable solutions to this multifaceted problem.
August 3, 2021
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Event Recap | Gateway Cities Leadership Summit: Growing an Inclusive Economy
On Thursday, July 22 MassINC hosted its Annual Gateway Cities Leadership Summit where we explored how Gateway Cities can successfully support entrepreneurs of color and promote inclusive entrepreneurship statewide.
July 21, 2021
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Advancing low-income fares beyond Boston
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.
June 25, 2021
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Budget Update: What Gateway Cities Need to Know
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.
May 24, 2021
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Regional Transit Authorities Win Funding Victory in House Budget
The Gateway Cities Journal
May 5, 2021
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New MassINC report lays out strategy for empowering entrepreneurs of color post-pandemic
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.
March 30, 2021
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Going for Growth
Exploring how efforts to increase digital inclusion can yield large benefits for Gateway Cities, their residents, and similar cities.
December 1, 2020
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Gateway Cities can’t afford cuts to MBTA service
By the time we emerge from the pandemic and turn the economy back on, we will be winding down the transportation networks central to an equitable recovery. But an affordable, accessible, and reliable public transit is especially vital to Gateway City revitalization.
November 16, 2020
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Strategies to Support Small Business Diversity and Equity
In recent years, MassINC has become increasingly concerned that our civic leaders do not reflect our growing diversity. This has significant ramifications for public policy, and our ability to heal the economic divide that has only deepened since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
October 22, 2020