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Crowded at the top: Massachusetts ranks third in BHI Competitiveness Index, dropping two places.
BOSTON - (October 25, 2010) After two straight years at the top, Massachusetts slipped to third place in the latest edition of the Beacon Hill Institute’s annual State Competitiveness Report. Lower scores in two measures ─ budget deficit and air quality ─ accounted for part of the drop. However, the Index showed that improvements in competitor states such as North Dakota and Colorado slightly outpaced Massachusetts strong showing. MORE.
Keynote by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo at BHI release conference at Suffolk Law School, October 25, 2010

Going Green with Energy in Massachusetts: Costly Mandates Will Hit Consumers, Business

(New York Times 10/15/2010)
Cape Wind wired with favoritism (Boston Herald, 8/25/2010)
High Health Costs Strangling Cities and Towns
Op-Ed Boston Herald 5/17/2010

Not in the Public Interest CATO JOURNAL
Massachusetts tops BHI Competitiveness Index for another year Full Report PDF

STAMPng Out the Nonsense of Our Critics in Pennsylvania
BHI responds to PA Tax and Budget Center Rebuttal (PDF)
Full PA-STAMP (PDF)

The Economics Effects of Cap-and-Trade Legislation

BHI Policy Study: Project Labor Agreements on Federal Construction Projects: A Costly Solution in Search of a Problem

Ninth Annual State Competitivenesss Report
Full Report PDF

Revised MA State Revenue Forecast 12/16/09

The Other Side of Question 3: More Jobs and Less Unemployment
(BOSTON ) – A new analysis of Question 3, the sales tax rollback, by the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) shows that the tax cut would create 27,199 private sector jobs, increase annual investment by $73 million and raise wages by $1.03 billion.
Question 3, which will appear on the November ballot, would reduce the sales tax from its current level of 6.25% to 3%. Opponents say that passage of Question 3 would devastate what they believe to be under-funded public services such as education and public safety. Supporters of the measure claim that a reduction in the sales tax would generate economic activity while forcing the state to cut what they believe is wasteful spending. The analysis is an attempt to quantify the economic effects of the passage of Question 3. More

BHI Survey: Voters point to way out of budget shortfall: Raise employee contributions on health insurance to save public sector jobs
(BOSTON May 28, 2010) – A new survey conducted by the Suffolk University Political Research Center for the Beacon Hill Institute shows that a plurality of voters prefer increasing public employee contributions to municipal health insurance plans over other alternatives as a way to meet budget gaps faced by cities and towns in Massachusetts. More

Introducing BHI Economic Indicators
BHI's new quarterly series examining local economic trends.