Massachusetts famously brags of living by its wits. While other regions may claim better year-round weather as a draw, or natural resources or an industrial base that fuel their economies, the Commonwealth has looked to a surfeit of brain power as its comparative advantage. That has made recent decades a golden era in Massachusetts, as […] The post Mass. higher ed sector facing stiff headwinds appeared first on Rhode Island Current.
A twice-failed push to limit who can access state-funded emergency shelters based on the amount of time they have been in Massachusetts will rise from the ashes again later this week when the House takes up its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal.
House Democrats want to boost state spending by 3.3 percent next fiscal year with a $57.9 billion budget that mirrors many of Gov. Maura Healey's ideas for tapping new funding sources and drives up outlays on the expectation that flat state tax collections will begin to rise again.