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WBUR

What the Mass. income tax ballot question would do for your wallet — and the state budget

Experts say the potential ballot question this fall to slash Massachusetts' state income tax from 5% to 4% would put a $5 billion dent in the state budget, if passed. But how much would you save?

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UPDATE: National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement

NSLVE is a longitudinal nonpartisan study, that seeks to understand whether students vote, not who they vote for. Since its launch in 2013, NSLVE has offered colleges and universities an opportunity to understand student voting behavior and leverage that understanding to improve educational programs promoting civic learning and engagement.

Rio Grande Guardian

The Case for a Hidalgo County Youth Task Force

National research from Tisch College's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) highlights the consequences of community disconnection among young people. This column exlpores the implications for one local county.

FOX10 News

Rising Youth Activism

This piece from FOX10 News about rising youth activism and anti-ICE protests around Phoenix, Arizona cites CIRCLE research on young people's views of their generation's impact.

NewsMedical

New AI learning tool bridges communication gaps between autistic and neurotypical people

Fahad Dogar, associate professor in Computer Science and at the Tisch College for Civic Life, said the team's approach was "grounded in the social model of disability, which emphasizes that disability arises not from individual deficits, but from the mismatch between individuals and their social environment."

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The Sun News

County clerk's office teams up with Chicago Bears to launch inaugural student election judge program

Our CIRCLE research is being used to inform civic outreach efforts for high schoolers in Chicago.

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Newsweek

Exclusive: Democrats Unveil New Plan to Win Young Voters From Trump

This article mentions research conducted by CIRCLE that found youth voter support for Donald Trump increased by 11 percent in the 2024 election as compared to 2020.

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The Boston Globe

What happened to Boston's golden goose?; City's olive branch to developers can't ease the pain of those inflated tax bills.

This Boston Globe op-ed references a joint report between cSPA and the Boston Policy Institute that predicted last June that the falling values of empty office buildings would eventually create a revenue shortfall of $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion.

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The Boston Globe

Mass. would lose billions under proposal to cut state income tax, and Democrats are chafing

Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, is quoted in this Boston Globe article on the revenue loss that could result from a proposal to cut Massachusetts' income tax rate.