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City Hall suspends its racial equity fund-raising as Marty Walsh heads to D.C.
The city has only raised a small amount to date, and will donate much of that another racial equity fund, one run by prominent Black business executives.
By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated February 3, 2021, 1:03 p.m.
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Some of the executives involved in the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund, which will take over much of the money raised by the Boston s Racial Equity Fund, a city operation.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
With Mayor Martin J. Walsh poised to join the Biden administration, city officials have suspended fund-raising for the Boston Racial Equity Fund and shifted most of its money to a privately-run statewide effort with similar goals.
Priority Should Be Economic Recovery
By Chris Geehern
The unprecedented upheaval of 2020 will change the way we live and work for years to come, says John Regan, president and CEO of Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM).
Regan punctuated his annual State of Massachusetts Business Address with a call for state policymakers to support the recovery of an economy that remains fragile in the wake of the ongoing public-health crisis.
“Hundreds of thousands of our friends and neighbors in Massachusetts remain out of work because of the pandemic. Many have left the workforce altogether,” Regan said during a virtual speech to the AIM Executive Forum. “Addressing the COVID crisis by shutting down the economy again and impeding the ability of people to support their families is not a solution. Neither is imposing Draconian tax increases to address the state’s fiscal issues on the backs of businesspeople trying to keep people employed amid permanent, structural changes to th