2021 tax returns showed nearly 38,000 Massachusetts residents between the age of 26 and 35 moved out of the state in 2020. "You expect to see 26- to 35-year-olds move in and out a lot," said Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Doug Howgate. "But the fact that it's the biggest loss sector…

Massachusetts had the lowest rental vacancy rate in the U.S. in 2022 and the second-highest median rents, Boston features the second-highest traffic delay times in the nation, and the state recently posted its highest outmigration numbers in 30 years, according to the Massachusetts Taxpayers…

But I like its latest report — a package of charts — because it highlights the full range of challenges facing the state. Here are some of the data points I found noteworthy. On housing costs: Massachusetts had the lowest apartment vacancy rate in the country at 2.8 percent in 2022. Boston had…

Doug Howgate, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said Thursday that several implementation questions left unresolved by the ballot question “must be answered soon or the state will exacerbate negative behavioral impacts of the surtax,” including tax avoidance and taxpayers moving…

Last summer, a report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation suggested high costs and taxes were helping drive tens of thousands of taxpayers out of the state every year. Between 2010 and 2019, about 800,000 tax filers with a combined $65 billion in adjusted gross income, left Massachusetts,…

Yet, even with this solid foundation, there are warning signs we must heed. According to a recent report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, Massachusetts lost 46,000 residents in 2021, the 4th greatest state population loss in the country.

The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, in a report released last week, said the state’s population already was aging and growing at a slower rate before the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s been “exacerbated” by employees’ ability to work remotely, which gave them the mobility to take new jobs in a…

Demographics pose a problem for the health of the Massachusetts economy. The state’s population is aging. The number of people in the workforce is declining. While policy makers may not be able to do anything to increase the birth rate, there are steps to take to encourage young adults to stay in…

The pandemic put a strain on our workforce here in Massachusetts. The latest report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) found startling trends when it comes to the population of Massachusetts, and they were all exacerbated by COVID-19.

“The decline in the birth rate over the past few decades, the aging of our population, the shrinking of our workforce age population, and then the reduction in international immigrants into Massachusetts, all are somewhat troubling because it means our workforce has been and will continue to…