MA Senate passes major economic development bill to curb COVID impact
The bill includes funding for various health, environmental, technological and housing initiatives.
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The bill includes funding for various health, environmental, technological and housing initiatives.
BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed a $4 billion spending plan that will put to work a portion of the state's direct federal aid from the American Rescue Plan...
Massachusetts lawmakers finalized a compromise bill to spend $4 billion in federal COVID-19 relief and state budget surplus funds.
Ashely Stolba, undersecretary for community development in the Executive Office for Housing and Economic Development, speaks to the annual meeting of the BRPC and Berkshire County...
How the Baker administration wants to use COVID-19 relief funds to close the racial homeownership gap "It's almost reparations." Elise Amendola / AP Email Massachusetts has one of the largest racial homeownership gaps in the country. And in the midst of the ongoing debate with State House leaders over who gets to spend roughly $5 billion in recent direct federal COVID-19 relief funds to the state, Gov. Charlie Baker is pushing to immediately use some of the money to address that gap in the hopes of closing one of the root causes of the racial wealth divide. He even has some State House leade...