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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 Jordan Wolman traveled to Worcester to profile a father of three who has been waiting ten months to receive much needed unemployment benefits after he was laid off. Erik Staples is one of many Bay Staters tasked with navigating one of the nation's slowest claims systems a year after the state made changes to try to "modernize" it. |
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Plus, Lynn makes a big investment to tackle sewer overflows, a state program providing legal aid to people facing eviction faces uncertain funding, Boston looks to join a FEMA program to help lower flood insurance costs for residents, and a tax-cutting ballot measure that could deal a $5 billion blow to the state budget heads to court. |
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Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. |
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— The CommonWealth Beacon team |
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| | May will mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of a new unemployment benefits system that was supposed to usher in a better user experience for staff and claimants alike. But delivery of benefits fell at its lowest point last year to the nation’s worst. | |
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| | A collection of cities on the North Shore (and across Massachusetts) have historically combined sewer systems where both wastewater and stormwater come through shared pipes. During heavy rains, the excess flow bypasses the treatment plants where it is supposed to be cleaned and is instead discharged into local bodies of water to prevent backups in people’s homes. | |
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| | “If you’re evicted from public housing, for all intents and purposes, a family will never have a chance to get back to it because the wait lists will be so long,” said Daniel Daley, a senior housing attorney at MetroWest Legal Services. The “double whammy,” he said – losing both housing and subsidy simultaneously – is what makes these cases so dire. | | | Well-Paid Maids pays all its cleaners at least $27 per hour and provides a full benefits package including 24 paid days off per year, health, dental, and vision insurance with an 80% company premium contribution for staff and their families, and a 401k with a 4% company match starting this summer. | After delivering over 50,000 cleanings in DC, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles since 2017, Well-Paid Maids is eager to show Bostonians the difference a living-wage makes: in their homes, and in the lives of their staff. Learn more here. | |
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| | Increasingly severe floods are threatening to put more financial strain on Massachusetts residents’ pockets. | |
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| | Legislative leaders would no doubt welcome a ruling from the SJC that the ballot question cannot go before voters, but the case against the question rests on a technical challenge that is rarely successful. | |
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What does the latest executive order aimed at changing how people cast their votes mean for Massachusetts? Two lawsuits are currently working their way through District Court in the state challenging a directive from President Trump that the US Postal Service only deliver mail ballots to voters on a federal citizenship list. |
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