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From the State House News Service in the Berkshire Eagle: BEACON HILL INSTITUTE Forecasted fiscal 2019 growth: $690 million or roughly 2.8...

BHI's latest op-ed over at the Boston Business Journal .

In Wake of Hurricanes in TX, FL, PR and VI, new PABS Could Leverage Private Sector Funds to Speed Rebuilding of Gov’t Buildings and Schools ...

How gun control endangers lives and keeps guns in the hands of the rich A presentation by John R. Lott, Jr., PhD President,  Crime Prev...

Here is the link to the 2016 Freedom in the States index.

BOSTON - (July 29, 2016) Massachusetts once again secured the top spot on the Beacon Hill Institute’s 15th Annual State Competitiveness In...

A six-member conference committee is hashing out the details of an extensive energy bill now in two separate bills S. 2400 and H. 4385 . ...

Here are the latest BHI columns over at NewBostonPost.com . Frank Conte:  Social impact bonds for public health programs Imagine a publ...

Neil Irwin in the New York Times . The unemployment rate is low by any historical standard at 5.3 percent . Businesses are complaining of ...

Thanks to all those who attended Monday's special event at the Park Plaza Hotel with Armando Regil, the Founding President of the IPEA, ...

Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University Response to Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The response was written by...

The following letter from BHI Executive Director David G. Tuerck was sent to the Suffolk Environmental Club on November 20, 2014: Dear Stu...

BHI's work on labor market reform and interstate competitiveness has drawn the attention of office-seekers far and wide. Safe to say bot...

From the Fed's authors:  The U.S. labor market is large and multifaceted. Often-cited indicators, such as the unemployment rate or p...

Education and Health Services is the largest job sector in Massachusetts. More on the June Employment Situation in Massachusetts. S...

This morning the Boston Herald published our op-ed on extending Trade Promotion Authority to extend free trade pacts. This benefits Massach...

Quick takeaway: State sales taxes remain steady and dropped only slightly during the downturn of 2009.

On May 21, 2014, The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released a report entitled, “STAMP is an Unsound Tool for Gauging the ...

A PDF version of this primer is available here .  The following is an assessment of the appropriateness of modeling state tax policy using...

  Another day, another reason for a handy compendium of response to "critiques" of BHI's work (and an note on argumentation.)...

From today's Wall Street Journal  (gated) Philip K. Howard, from his new book "The Rule of Nobody: Saving America From Dead La...

David G. Tuerck interviewed by Massachusetts Matters on the recent UAW vote in Tennessee.

Elliott Negin, Director of News & Commentary Union of Concerned Scientists Huffington Post Dear Mr. Negin: I write this letter to you to...

Muddling through! Economists expect only modest improvement in the second half of the year. Most believe the economy will keep growing...

John Steele Gordon: A Short Primer on the National Debt - WSJ.com But while these numbers are fun to play with, they don't mean mu...

From Defining Ideas at the Hoover Institution's blog "Keynesians and others have their own explanations for why the Keynesian pre...

A Cape Cod Times story runs under the headline " Civilian flaggers not a money saver " with some important points 1. "The $1....

WCVB-TV (Channel 5) on BHI's Study: $1.3 Billion Easily Cut From School Spending It's time to revisit the foundation budget. Read th...

-- This post was written by Paul Bachman, Director of Research, Beacon Hill Institute, August 19, 2011. On TP's Climate Progre...