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MASSACHUSETTS HAS MADE real progress in acknowledging the racial wealth gap. Study after study has documented the scale of the problem and the historical forces that produced it. Yet one of the most powerful tools for addressing wealth inequality remains underexamined and underused: procurement.
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JUSTICES ON THE state’s highest court are wrestling with whether they should be second-guessing the intentions of Nahant town meeting voters who wanted to prevent Northeastern University from developing a stretch of land in the ocean-facing town.
Voters in the tiny North Shore community, which sits on a one-square-mile peninsula that juts into Mas...
IN EARLY DECEMBER, US Citizenship and Immigration Services officials made national headlines when they canceled citizenship ceremonies for naturalized Americans at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
EPISODE INFO HOST: Chris Lisinski GUESTS: Viviana Abreu-Hernandez, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center; Jim Stergios, executive director of the Pioneer Institute
More than 3,000 people beared 15-degree weather to attend a rally in front of the Massachusetts State House today, protesting the federal government’s mobilization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against undocumented migrants, legal residents, and US citizens. It was one of several protests occurring nation-wide in solidarity with the residents of Minneapolis, w...