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Healey is promising businesses relief on costly unemployment insurance. Don’t count on it.

Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, is quoted about Governor Maura Healey’s efforts to overhaul Massachusetts’ employer-funded unemployment insurance system, saying, “There seems to be a huge gulf between business groups and the state.”

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Unwrapping Gov. Healey's proposed taxes on candy, Zyn

Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, joins Radio Boston to discuss Governor Maura Healey’s proposal to add a sales tax to candy and synthetic nicotine products in the state.

WBUR

Resistance and compromise: How Mass. Democrats plan to deal with minority status in D.C.

Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, is quoted throughout this radio segment and accompanying article about the challenges that Massachusetts Democrats face now that they are in the minority in the House and Senate.

CommonWealth Beacon

The dividing line on millionaires tax money

Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, is quoted from a December Massachusetts legislative panel about trade offs related to the revenue generated by the state’s millionaires tax.

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WBUR

Massachusetts governor's more measured approach to President elect-Trump

cSPA's Evan Horowitz explains why Gov. Maura Healy’s response to Donald Trump’s second administration has changed from 2016 when she was the state’s attorney general.

The Boston Globe

Employers or taxpayers: Who should take the hit for the state’s $2.5 billion unemployment debacle?

cSPA's Evan Horowitz comments on unemployment insurance misspending by the state saying, “It’s very hard to make UI a top spending priority, but legislators need to make hard decisions.”

ABC News

How US cities are reimagining the future as office vacancy rates soar to 30-year high

cSPA's Evan Horowitz discusses how major cities are getting creative about empty office spaces, which have been transformed by hybrid and remote work.

WBUR

Old foe, new job: Why Healey is less fiery about opposing Trump

Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, explains why Gov. Maura Healy’s response to Donald Trump’s second administration has changed from 2016 when she was the State’s attorney general saying, “Being the governor means something different.”

CommonWealth Beacon

Why both sides are wrong about the millionaires tax

Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, analyzes what is currently known about Massachusetts’ millionaire tax, which is emerging as “an uncertain mix of real benefits and concerning costs.”

Center for State Policy Analysis