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The Boston Globe
As vote draws near, the restaurant industry is split on tipped worker ballot measure
This article links to cSPA's analysis of Massachusetts Ballot Question 5, which would raise the minimum wage for tipped employees in the state.
Dorchester Reporter
City tax increase looms amid talks between Wu and Beacon Hill leaders
Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, is quoted from testimony he gave at a Boston City Council Ways and Means Committee hearing on ways to ease a possible crunch for homeowners and businesses triggered by a national downturn in market values for commercial properties.
BBC
The truth behind Trump’s biggest illegal voter claim
Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner defends data from the Cooperative Election Study (of which he is co-principal investigator), which informed a 2014 article claiming that large populations of non-citizens voted in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Schaffner notes “it’s not possible to draw statistical conclusions from a relatively small number of survey participants.”
HuffPost
Get In Loser, We're Going Voting: How Young Women Are Shifting Left
Abby Kiesa of CIRCLE comments on increased civic engagement among young women saying, “The last presidential election, we saw young women turn out at rates higher than their peers who identify as men in every race and ethnicity for which we had data.” Multiple CIRCLE studies are referenced.
Alumni Profile: Alexandra Dingle
Alexandra Dingle’s passion for transnational approaches to education began in Tisch College’s 1+4 Bridge Year Program in Pune, India. She is now applying these experiences as a VIA Global Community Fellow and mentor to First Year Global Program students in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
WBUR
Unpacking the top misconceptions about the state's 5 ballot questions
cSPA's Evan Horowitz joins this episode of Radio Boston to share his research into the issues behind the five Massachusetts ballot questions.
The Boston Globe
Wu, business leaders near a compromise on contentious property tax plan
This article references a report from cSPA showing a downward trend in Boston commercial property values that could lead to a city revenue shortfall of $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion over the next five years.
USA Today