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Clark bill addresses homeless and foster youth achievement gap

Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-Mass) and Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA) introduced the Homeless and Foster Youth Achievement Act, legislation to help homeless and foster youth stay in school and achieve their academic goals. Currently, states collect and release data such as graduation rates broken down by race, disability, and income level to help schools identify achievement gaps and the challenges students face in school, and this bill would add homeless and foster youth status to the existing criteria

Republicans abdicate responsibility with patches to crumbling infrastructure

“Every day, Massachusetts families cross the Commonwealth’s 2,683 structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges. Workers who stand ready to repair our roads and bridges are instead idle because of a lack of funding. And states like Massachusetts are unable to plan for our long term transportation needs because of constant uncertainty surrounding transportation funding.

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AG Healey Secures $2 Million in Restitution for 20,000 Massachusetts Homeowners...

One of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers will pay $2 million in restitution to resolve allegations that it violated state law and committed unfair and deceptive practices by charging Massachusetts homeowners for unnecessary fees and overpriced force-placed insurance policies, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today