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Area legislators show support for federal bill ensuring voting rights "> Published: 8/3/2021 9:38:36 PM Massachusetts legislators have joined a nationwide call to pass a bill intended to ensure baseline voting rights across all states. Seventy-four state legislators, including state Sen. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, and state Rep. Mindy Domb, D-Amherst, who led the effort in Massachusetts, signed a letter urging Congress to pass the legislation, called the For the People Act. The legislation ...

Area legislators show support for federal bill ensuring voting rights "> Published: 8/3/2021 8:46:35 PM Massachusetts legislators have joined a nationwide call to pass a bill intended to ensure baseline voting rights across all states. Seventy-four state legislators, including state Sen. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, and state Rep. Mindy Domb, D-Amherst, who led the effort in Massachusetts, signed a letter urging Congress to pass the legislation, called the For the People Act. The legislation �...

Chamber Corner: Worcester chamber successfully pushing for expanded vocational school access David Sullivan The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce is helping to take the lead statewide in advocating for increased access to the vocational technical education system in Massachusetts. The chamber is a co-founding partner of the Alliance for Vocational Technical Education (AVTE), a statewide coalition of other chambers of commerce, workforce development groups, associations of school administra...

Lesser, AG tout new student loan borrower bill of rights "> Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, and Attorney General Maura Healey speak Thursday about the state’s recently implemented Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. SCREENSHOT Published: 7/15/2021 9:25:32 PM BOSTON — A bill creating a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights and an ombudsman’s office tasked with protecting those borrowers has gone into effect in Massachusetts. State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, was an author of that bill...

Boston and Cambridge could see major changes as some workers never return, McKinsey report says Jon Chesto © Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff A man passes through reflected light on a near empty Congress Street in downtown Boston. The Boston-Cambridge economy may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, as the long-term acceptance of remote work and changes in commuting and travel habits reverberate throughout the region. That’s the big takeaway from a new report released ...

Massachusetts gig economy comes under scrutiny as lawmakers, labor leaders examine future of work MassLive.com 3 hrs ago © Steph Solis | ssolis/masslive.com The Future of Work commission held its first meeting Tuesday night. Lawmakers, union leaders and labor analysts in Massachusetts face the gargantuan task of analyzing what the post-COVID economy and workforce look like — from the use of artificial intelligence to benefits for delivery drivers. But experts speaking before the Future o...

Gov. Charlie Baker filed legislation that would use some of the more than $3.9 billion state revenue surplus for a 2-month tax holiday this summer.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday continued to pitch his new idea for a two-month sales tax holiday this summer even after the $900 million tax relief proposal landed with a bit of a thud on Beacon Hill where many Democrats panned the short-term tax...

The proposal would expand this years sales tax holiday from the weekend of Aug. 14-15 to the months of August and September.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday continued to pitch his new idea for a two-month sales tax holiday in Massachusetts this summer even after the $900 million tax...