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Advocates call for legislative changes following Healey’s cuts to elder care budget

While the demand for services is there, the lack of utilization is a workforce issue, said Jehlen, who co-chairs the Legislature's committees on both elder affairs and labor.

Healey files second annual budget amidst uncertain fiscal outlook

The Healey administration wants to tap new revenue sources and keep spending growth somewhat constrained in a $58.15 billion state budget that officials pitched as putting Massachusetts on a "glide path" toward potentially better financial conditions further down the road.

Healey opts to not file liquor license reform bill

The first-term executive team described alcohol licensing reform as one of several key features in a wide-ranging "Municipal Empowerment Act" they rolled out Friday, pitching it as a way to remove the existing hurdle of securing state approval.

Worcester, Templeton among communities to receive housing project funding from state

The funding jolt from subsidies and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, which saw a $20 million increase in the tax package Gov. Maura Healey signed in October, will benefit more than 1,900 housing units.
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🔒What hope for homes? Even as interest rates might drop this year, the single-family housing market isn’t expected to loosen

The most significant burden on the single-family market, not just in Central Massachusetts but around the country, is interest rates.

Hundreds attend hearing focused on Healey’s housing plan

Hundreds of people crowded into the State House's largest hearing room to offer feedback on the five-year, $4.1 billion housing bond bill, representing a cross-section of affordable and public housing activists, real estate developers, and residents who themselves continue to withstand the crushing pressure of high costs and low supply.

Lawmakers balk at tax hikes despite governor’s spending proposals

Gov. Maura Healey launched into her second year as governor with big spending promises, but Democratic leaders in the Legislature say they aren't planning to raise taxes to pay for them, even as the state's fiscal picture looks grimmer than it did a year ago.

Healey’s State of the Commonwealth address calls for increased education and transportation spending

Beleaguered public transit, K-12 education, and the growing climate and clean energy technology sector would all get major boosts in state funding under Gov. Maura Healey's vision for the year ahead.
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Healey set to make first State of the Commonwealth address Wednesday night

According to her spokeswoman, Healey plans to discuss investments she hopes to see advance this year for housing, transportation and infrastructure, education, child care and economic development, including the life science and climate technology.

State reopening contract bids in effort to diversify vendors

At a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Boston, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday announced that two state offices are partnering to reopen unspecified statewide contracts to provide more opportunities to diverse and small businesses.
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