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  • 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…

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  • 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.