The growth of Mass Alliance and its supporter base has given progressivism a larger voice in Massachusetts politics, and we have nearly doubled our board size since our founding in 2006. In the past three years, Mass Alliance has incorporated groups such as Massachusetts Fair Share, 350 Mass, and the Environmental League of Massachusetts. These...Read More
The growing trend of education privatization threatens the accessibility and quality of education for, Black, Brown, and lower-income families. Massachusetts’s passage of the bill tying teachers’ wages to MCAS scores further deepened and perpetuated this education inequality. It is not new knowledge that standardized test scores more accurately reflect one’s socioeconomic status–and not necessarily mastery...Read More
The road to paid sick leave in contemporary America, including the corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors, can seem unpaved and dotted with “turn back” signs. Could even a global pandemic wake us to the links between health, poverty, and inequality? In 2004, Senator Ted Kennedy introduced a bill that would allow workers federally protected time...Read More
