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Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. |
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This week, reporter Chris Lisinski dives into Governor Maura Healey’s proposal to tighten eligibility requirements for social safety net programs by bringing back asset limits for emergency cash aid. Such limitations, which advocates say could “harm the most vulnerable clients,” would require recipients to not only prove they have limited income, but also own nothing of significant financial value. |
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Plus: reluctant MBTA communities start to move toward zoning compliance after a suit from the state, a real estate-backed coalition sues to remove a rent control initiative from November’s ballot, the Bay State falls short of climate commitments following a year of Trump challenges to green energy goals, and funding for environmental programs like state parks get trimmed in the proposed budget. |
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— The CommonWealth Beacon team |
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| | Five years after lawmakers scrapped the asset limit attached to the Emergency Aid to the Elderly, Disabled, and Children program, Gov. Maura Healey wants to bring it back at a higher threshold — a move that advocates say will impose unnecessary burdens on at-risk recipients. | |
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| | The law will be before the Supreme Judicial Court next month, when the justices hear arguments in a case brought by Marshfield that claims the zoning law should be struck down as an “unfunded mandate” being imposed on communities. | |
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| | Four landlords who own and lease residential units in Massachusetts are the named plaintiffs in the suit seeking to kill the rent control measure. They are suing Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Secretary of State William Galvin in their official capacities. | |
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| | The state’s self-assessment comes as it races to reduce its carbon pollution to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and produce no new net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — all while confronting a hostile federal government and an affordability crisis sweeping the state. | |
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| | The impact of the federal reconciliation package enacted by President Trump last year coupled with slower growth are forcing Healey to reexamine funding across the board. EEA is not immune from the shifting budget landscape. | |
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On the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute talk with Michael Caljouw, the state commissioner of insurance. They discuss new regulations for insurers, concerns about the stability and solvency of the Massachusetts health insurance system, and insurer consolidation. |
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