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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…
Racial Wealth Equity Chartbook: National Trends and the Challenge of Local Data
May 16, 2023
Access to wealth is more than security against hard times. Wealth determines where you live, the quality of schools your children attend, whether banks will offer you a loan, and…
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,…
The Color of the Capital Gap
May 21, 2021
Roughly half of small businesses nationwide have unmet need for capital, and this share jumps to two-thirds for entrepreneurs of color.

A Snapshot of Asian-Owned Businesses in Massachusetts

Racial Wealth Equity Chartbook: National Trends and the Challenge of Local Data

Care Work and the Racial Wealth Gap

Massachusetts shows progress on poverty, but remains worse than 21 other states due to high cost of living

The Stubborn Persistence of the Gender Pay Gap in Massachusetts

The Color of the Capital Gap