Author: mangrove-team

A Primer on Children’s Savings Accounts: Their Promise and Limitations
August 9, 2023
By Kelly Harrington August 9, 2023 What is a CSA? Children’s Savings Account (CSA) programs provide children with a savings or investment account and usually pair this with some modest…
A Snapshot of Asian-Owned Businesses in Massachusetts
June 21, 2023
By Dr. Paul Watanabe, Dr. Nicole Filler and Tara Nguyen, Institute of Asian American Studies at UMass Boston; Q.J. Shi, Asian Business Empowerment Council; Anne Calef, Boston Indicators This brief…
Care Work and the Racial Wealth Gap
March 17, 2023
By Anne Calef Care work has forever been critical to the health and basic functioning of our society. However, as we detailed in our September 2022 report with SkillWorks, Care…
Massachusetts shows progress on poverty, but remains worse than 21 other states due to high cost of living
September 21, 2022
By Anne Calef Among the many indicators of well-being that we track, poverty may be the most important. Our region clearly has the aggregate resources to meet every family’s basic…
The Stubborn Persistence of the Gender Pay Gap in Massachusetts
March 31, 2022
By Anne Calef Massachusetts has some of the strongest equal pay laws in the country, and yet women still earn an average of $0.81 for every dollar that men make,…