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| May 7, 2026 | Pioneer Study: Seniors Paid More for Key Drugs Despite Federal Price Controls | Out-of-pocket costs rose in 2025 for widely used Medicare drugs targeted under Inflation Reduction Act
Our findings show that patients can pay more at the pharmacy counter depending on how plans and PBMs structure benefits.”
— Bill Smith, P... |
| May 3, 2025 | The Rising Tide of Rent: A Midwestern Surge Amidst a National Crisis | In the vast landscape of American cities, a seismic shift is occurring. Rent prices are climbing, and the Midwest is at the forefront of this trend. Once known for its affordability, cities like Cleveland and Indianapolis are now experienci... |
| Apr 30, 2025 | The 10 U.S. cities where rents are rising the fastest—5 are in the Midwest | Rent prices are on the rise in the Midwest, with five of the U.S. cities with the fastest-growing rents located there, according to a recent SmartAsset analysis of Zillow data.
The Midwest has historically been home to more affordable homes... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | State Auditor DiZoglio Issues Letter to Attorney General Campbell Regarding MA Legislative Audit | Boston — In March 2023, I announced that our office was conducting an audit of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives (together, the “Legislature”). The audit includes budgetary, hiring, spending, and procurement information,... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Why sunny states are eating Massachusetts' lunch | Six fast-growing states in the South — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — now add more to the national GDP than the Northeast, the perennial powerhouse, writes Axios' Mike Allen.
Why it matters: The pattern is evidence o... |
| May 11, 2023 | Massachusetts Seeks to License Reiki and Other Healing Therapies -- Again | BOSTON, MA, USA, May 11, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- For a sixth legislative season, the State of Massachusetts has yet again introduced legislation to standardize and regulate the practice and teaching of alternative healing therapies. A bil... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | As COVID-19 Emergencies Ease, Some Progress on Telehealth Rules | “A surprising number of states have only made minor tweaks to their telehealth laws. Lawmakers must refocus their efforts to ensure their states have clear laws and guidelines in place so that patients and providers can benefit from today’s... |
| Jun 21, 2022 | Study Finds Pension Obligation Bonds Could Worsen T Retirement Fund’s Financial Woes | “Virtually every study of POBs finds that timing and duration of the bond issues are critical. Bonds floated at the end of a bull market are the most likely to lose money, and that makes this idea a wrong turn at the worst possible time.” -... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | METCO Works Well, Small Tweaks Could Make It Even Better, Study Says | “Without METCO, diversity would be virtually nonexistent in some districts.” - Dr. Ken Ardon, the co-author of “METCO Funding: Understanding Massachusetts’ Voluntary School Desegregation Program” with Roger Hatch.
BOSTON (PRWEB) June 02, 20... |
| May 31, 2022 | Hint Health Announces $45 Million In New Funding To Fuel Growth Of Direct Primary Care | Young female doctor consults with a patient getty |
| May 19, 2022 | Study Documents The Design Challenges, Contracting Issues, And Delays Facing New MBTA Fare Collection System | “The design challenges with this proposal were always clear. But there are lingering questions over the T’s ability to hold OpCo’s feet to the fire and prevent costs from escalating further.” - Greg Sullivan, Pioneer Institute’s Research Di... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Study Finds Continued Growth in Education Tax-Credit Scholarship Programs | “Policymakers should craft tax credit scholarship programs to maximize the number of families who can benefit from the scholarships, and maximize the freedom and flexibility of scholarship granting organizations to serve those families.” - ... |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Study: Massachusetts Hospitals Pull Back on Charity Care as Revenue from Federal 340B Drug Discount Program Explodes | “The 340B drug discount program started with the best of intentions: to make healthcare more affordable to low-income, uninsured populations but has been transformed into a lucrative revenue stream for hospitals and pharmacies who can arbit... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Study: MA Legislature Likely to Reduce Spending on Education and Transportation from Other Revenue Sources, Replace Cuts with Surtax Money | “If the tax initiative is adopted, legislators could circumvent its stated intent yet still be in compliance with it. They can simply reduce spending on education and transportation from other revenue sources and replace it with surtax mone... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Study Recommends State Receivership for Boston Public Schools | “Boston’s schools are failing most students. The district has had generations to turn around chronically low-performing schools, and despite modest pockets of progress, it has been unable to sustain even small improvements.” - Dr. Cara Cand... |
| Mar 1, 2022 | New Pioneer Institute Law Center to Focus on Educational Opportunity, Economic Freedom, and Accountable Government | “We aim to create a robust community of professionals committed to leveraging the law to advance equal opportunity and responsive, responsible government.” - Brackett Denniston, Chair, PioneerLegal
BOSTON (PRWEB) March 01, 2022
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| Feb 16, 2022 | New Study Shows What Works for Civics Education, Reviews and Grades America’s Top Programs | “Civics reformers can draw on programs such as Hillsdale College’s 1776 Curriculum; We the People: Citizen and Constitution; and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which provide lesson plans aimed for academically serious, curiou... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Study Finds Bus Rapid Transit Can Offer Cost-Effective Benefits | “Three Boston-area pilot projects that incorporate BRT features on existing bus routes reinforce the idea that this is a promising approach that should be expanded.” - Ian Ollis, co-author
BOSTON (PRWEB) February 08, 2022
Successful local p... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Study Finds Massachusetts Would Benefit from Adopting Education Savings Accounts | "ESA programs are a proven way to address achievement gaps because they break the relationship between discriminatory housing patterns and public-school assignments that are based on residence.” - Dr. Cara Candal, author of “Modeling a... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Study Raises Concern That Annual T Fare Evasion Costs Could Rise by More Than $30 Million Under AFC 2.0 | “While faster travel times are important, the problem with the MBTA's current plan is that the cost of hiring the number of enforcement staff needed to avoid rampant fare evasion would be counter-productive.” - Greg Sullivan, Pioneer Instit... |
| Jan 18, 2022 | Study: Tax Up for a Vote in November Would Ensnare Over Three Times More Taxpayers Than Previously Estimated | “More than three times the number of unique individual Massachusetts taxpayers—mainly retirees and individuals who have a business pass-through—would be affected by the proposed surtax over nine years than found in these estimates.” - Greg ... |
| Jan 11, 2022 | Studies Find Virtual Learning Grows During COVID, Providing Safe and Flexible Options for Families and At-Risk Students | “Virtual learning, using computers and the internet to study courses taught in the classroom, isn’t meant to replace an in-school education. But it provides a genuine alternative for families who have challenges that interfere with attendin... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Study: “Millionaire’s Tax” Would Have Far-Reaching Effects on “Pass-Through” Businesses | “This tax hike would come on top of other taxes that only apply to these entities. The result is that these mostly small businesses would not only pay taxes at a higher rate than large corporations, but see their taxes rise more than those ... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Study: Decline in Cardiovascular Health Screenings During COVID-19 Pandemic Poses New Public Health Threat | “In the absence of prevention efforts, including repeated calls to at-risk populations to visit the doctor and get important health screenings, we are on the brink of a public health challenge, worsening patient outcomes, and additional hea... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Study: Pandemic Pension Bonus Bills Would Cost Billions and Unfairly Favor Highly Compensated Public Employees | “It would be fine for the legislature to reward public employees who faced pandemic-related risks. But with Beacon Hill awash in billions of federal dollars, these bills unfortunately smack of a money grab.” - Jim Stergios, Pioneer Institut... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | Study Warns that New Hampshire Tax Policies Would Exacerbate Impacts of a Graduated Income Tax | “After Tennessee phased out their interest and dividends tax in 2016, we saw a spike in domestic migrants favoring that state over Massachusetts. The stakes are even higher with New Hampshire because it is part of Greater Boston’s regional ... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Study Suggests How to Advance Fairness, Predictability of “Payment in Lieu of Taxes” Programs Aimed at Nonprofits | “PILOT programs are not a solution to long-standing municipal fiscal troubles. But finding a middle ground for large nonprofits to subsidize a portion of the cost of local services could help relieve the tax burden on residents and small bu... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Study Says Massachusetts Surtax Proposal Could Reduce Taxable Income in the State by over $2 Billion | “Research data allow us to put some hard numbers on the devastating and perhaps permanent impact of a graduated income tax - as much as $2 billion in lost taxable income.” - Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios
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| Jun 3, 2021 | Study: Massachusetts Should Retain Additional Healthcare System Flexibility Granted During Pandemic | "Enhanced flexibility improves our readiness for the next pandemic, and saves money for patients, small businesses and taxpayers every other day of the year." - Josh Archambault
BOSTON (PRWEB) June 03, 2021
Would improve readiness... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Study Finds Deep Flaws in Advocates’ Claims that the Massachusetts Tax Code is Regressive | “Massachusetts is losing almost a billion dollars of wealth a year because of relocations to low- and no-tax states. Then factor in easier job mobility post-pandemic. The sum total is that tax increases are a risky move right now." - J... |
| May 12, 2021 | Report Calls for Better Reporting on Impact of COVID-19 in Eldercare Facilities | “High mortality rates in Massachusetts eldercare facilities during the pandemic make the availability of clear and complete information on cases and deaths in each of these facilities vitally important.” - Barbara Anthony, Pioneer Institute... |
| May 5, 2021 | Study Says Interstate Tax Competition, Relocation Subsidies Exacerbate Telecommuting Trends | "With such a fluid situation on workforce mobility, no one can take for granted that Boston’s past labor market advantages will protect it from the effects of a business-unfriendly environment in a post-COVID world.” - Andrew Mikula, P... |
| Apr 26, 2021 | Study Warns Massachusetts Tax Proposal Would Deter Investment, Stifling the “Innovation Economy” | “The punitive aspect of the graduated income tax proposal for investors is that, unlike at the federal level, capital gains can push them into a higher tax bracket - a significant deterrent to potential investors in small businesses emergin... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Study Shows the Adverse Effects of Graduated Income Tax Proposal on Small Businesses | "This is a time when we should be prioritizing the resilience of the state’s economy and getting people back to work, not raising taxes on small businesses.” - Nina Weiss, Pioneer Institute
BOSTON (PRWEB) April 20, 2021
The state const... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Poll Finds Mixed Views About Schools’ Pandemic Performance | “Massachusetts residents have not been satisfied with the remote learning Massachusetts schools are providing during the pandemic. And they place a fair amount of the blame on the shoulders of both school districts and teachers’ unions.” - ... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Study: Systemic Failure in IDEA Implementation for Private School Students with Disabilities in Additional States | “Since the data are not being gathered in any meaningful way, it’s challenging if not impossible to hold agencies accountable for complying with IDEA.” - Jamie Gass, Pioneer Institute
BOSTON (PRWEB) April 08, 2021
States, school districts f... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Study: Graduated Income Tax Proposal Fails to Protect Taxpayers from Bracket Creep | "Proponents of a graduated income tax insisted on an escalation factor that will be punitive to many more Massachusetts taxpayers than they claim. If the measure had been tied to the median household income, it would have better protec... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | New Study Warns Graduated Income Tax Will Harm Many Massachusetts Retirees | "A graduated income tax would be more of a raid on retirement nest eggs than a tax on the super wealthy. In Massachusetts, 46% of the people who would be affected by the tax were "millionaires" only once in 10 years, likely w... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | Study: Graduated Income Tax Proponents Rely on Analyses That Exclude the Vast Majority Of “Millionaires” to Argue Their Case | “High-net worth households that do financial planning could move to another state before they sell million-dollar assets. They fly under the radar in Cristobal Young’s work because most of them don’t earn more than $1 million in the year be... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Report Contrasts State Government and Private Sector Employment Changes During Pandemic | “During the pandemic, the private sector took it on the chin while public sector employees, for the most part, were treated as a protected class.” - Jim Stergios, Pioneer Institute Executive Director
BOSTON (PRWEB) March 15, 2021
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| Mar 10, 2021 | Study Finds Massachusetts Graduated Income Tax May Be a “Blank Check” and Not Increase Funding for Designated Priorities | “The rejection of these amendments leaves Massachusetts without even the minimum funding requirements California has. With their votes, the legislature expressed clearly that they intend to put the money into the General Fund - the equivale... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Report: Proposed Graduated Income Tax Might Not Increase State Education and Transportation Spending | “As a practical matter, every dollar the graduated income tax generates could be siphoned off to some other purpose without violating the text of the proposed constitutional amendment.” - Kevin Martin, author of “The Graduated Income Tax Am... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Key Madison Park Program Lags Other State Voc-Techs, but Shows Signs of Improvement | “Madison Park has a key role to play in growing the Greater Boston economy. But to create a bridge for low-income students to enter the middle class, the school must succeed in connecting its students to area employers.” - Jim Steegios, Exe... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | New Study Highlights Economic Fallout from California’s 2012 Tax Hike | BOSTON (PRWEB) February 22, 2021
A 2012 income and sales tax increase in California, named “Proposition 30,” stifled business activity, accelerated out-migration among the wealthy, and ultimately reduced the state’s tax base, according to a... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | New Study Finds Pandemic-Spurred Technologies Lowered Barriers to Exit in High-Cost States | Share of workers who telecommute before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to various survey groups “The pandemic has changed the calculus on whether telecommuting is worth it, for both employers and workers,” said Andrew M... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Congress Needs To Build On Its Previous Half Win On Transparency In Next COVID Bill | Tucked into the massive COVID bill that Congress passed before Christmas was an important step forward for patients wanting more price transparency, that received almost no media attention. As debate begins again on another bill, Congress n... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | New Study Shows Significant Wealth Migration from Massachusetts to Florida, New Hampshire | Do the Wealthy Migrate Away From High-Tax States? A Comparison of Adjusted Gross Income Changes in Massachusetts and Florida “Because of our stable tax environment and concentration of talent, Massachusetts outperformed most states in job g... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | New Book Offers Roadmap to Sustainability for Massachusetts Catholic Schools | A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts “K-12 education is designed to produce active participants in our democracy. A deep research base confirms that Catholic schools produce citizens who rate higher for tolerance, political... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Study: Massachusetts Should Embrace Direct Healthcare Options | Direct Health Care Agreements: A New Option for Patient-Centered Care That Costs Less and Reduces Provider Burnout "This approach to investing in primary care has been shown to reduce costs, emergency room visits, inpatient care and vi... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | New Study Finds Tax Policy Drives Connecticut’s Ongoing Fiscal & Economic Crisis | “Leaving has never been easier,” said Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios. “In some cases, high earners can stay put and simply move money into trusts located in other states.”
BOSTON (PRWEB) January 14, 2021
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| Dec 14, 2020 | New Study Provides Toolkit for Crafting Education Tax-Credit Scholarship Programs | “Policymakers should craft tax-credit scholarship programs to maximize the incentives for taxpayers to contribute to scholarship granting organizations, the number of families that can benefit from the scholarships and the freedom and flexi... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | Telehealth Mandates Hurt Vulnerable Patients And Small Business | COVID-19 is shining a bright light on the benefits of telehealth. Yet, as this happens, some are pushing payment and coverage mandates that will have large, unintended, long-term consequences on affordability for patients. Instead states an... |
| May 11, 2020 | More Federal Money To States Isn’t The Solution | next White House at DC. Treasury Department Federal Credit Union.Getty |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Two Coronavirus Education Pauses That Make Sense | STANFORD, CA - MARCH 09: Empty chairs and tables sit outside the usually bustling student union ... [+] during a quiet morning at Stanford University. Stanford announced that classes will be held online for the remainder of the winter quart... |
| Feb 22, 2019 | The U.S. shouldn’t use the ‘QALY’ in drug cost-effectiveness reviews | What’s a year of life worth?
That question is at the heart of a metric called the quality-adjusted life year that is increasingly being used to make decisions about paying for new drugs.
If I was asked that question about one of my children... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Device tax: Top 19 Mass. device makers to pay $422.5M this year | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The 2.3% medical device tax created by President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act is projected to raise more than $422 million this year from the top 19 public and private medical device makers in Massachusetts alone,... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Healthcare reform: Are fewer people in MA paying the individual mandate penalty? | By Joshua Archambault, for the Pioneer Institute’s Healthcare Blog
Since the Supreme Court upheld the ACA/Obamacare, there has been a renewed interest in the Massachusetts healthcare law. I have blogged many times before to caution readers ... |
| Jun 14, 2012 | The myth of cost control legislation | By Joshua Archambault
The House passed their version of "cost control" last night in a 148-7 vote. Sadly for taxpayers and the general public, there was little debate on the bill itself and the few minutes of debate on the floor r... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Health care reform study: Massachusetts health insurance exchange fails to cut costs | The Massachusetts health care reform law has been successful in reducing the ranks of the uninsured, but the benefit exchange set up by the landmark 2006 legislation has failed in its mission to reduce costs and faces serious hurdles from f... |
