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The ACLU of Massachusetts has been reimagining community safety in Massachusetts for decades through its campaigns to work for criminal law reforms to end our reliance on incarceration, eliminate racial disparities in the system, and reinvest in public health and human needs.
Rahsaan Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, has been a major part of their work. Please join us as we discuss their efforts to make the criminal legal system more fair and just for all of Massachusetts.
Rahsaan Hall is the Director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. In this role Rahsaan helps develop the ACLU of Massachusetts’ integrated advocacy approach to address racial justice issues. Through legislative advocacy, litigation and community engagement, the program works on issues that deeply impact communities of color and historically disenfranchised communi
Massachusetts voters support a 4 percent income surtax on household income above $1 million, an idea that could be on the 2022 ballot, but oppose increases in the state income, sales or gas taxes, according to new poll results.
The income surtax, a constitutional amendment that requires a second favorable vote from the Legislature this session to reach the ballot, was favored in the MassINC poll of registered voters by 72 percent of respondents and opposed by 20 percent, with 7 percent unsure.
Raising the 5 percent income tax was opposed by 71 percent of respondents. Seventy-two percent of the poll s more than 1,500 respondents opposed the idea of increasing the 6.25 percent sales tax. Raising the gas tax was opposed by 66 percent, with 28 percent in favor.