Chris Lisinski/SHNS Electricity providers will need to cut half a million tons of greenhouse gas emissions and gas providers will need to trim more than 340,000...
By Katie Lannan State House News Service JUNE 17, 2021…..State lawmakers on Thursday agreed to schedule this year’s sales tax holiday for the weekend of August...
Matt Murphy/SHNS Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Ron Mariano on Thursday teed up for a vote (this) week a constitutional amendment that would raise...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service announced that the first monthly payment of the expanded and newly-advanceable Child Tax...
By Colin A. Young State House News Service MAY 5, 2021…..Many specifics around the proposal to levy an additional tax on households who earn more than...
WASHINGTON, DC— House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the decision by the...
By Matt Murphy and Michael P. Norton MARCH 16, 2021…..With an end-of-March deadline looming to pass legislation to stabilize the unemployment insurance system, Senate leaders on...
Thousands of small businesses have received hundreds of millions of dollars in state recovery grants since December, helping them to pay the rent and make payroll,...
By Matt Murphy MARCH 1, 2021…..Arguing that the wealth of billionaires has grown over the course of the pandemic, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday introduced...
By Chris Lisinski FEB. 24, 2021…..A three-step, 12-cent gas tax increase, fare-free MBTA and regional transit authority buses, new surcharges on parking space rentals and purchases,...