Unemployment, wages, and innovation are high points for the state’s economy, all of which the commonwealth is doing the best in the nation.
But the state has stalled on education, transportation, and revenue. If those don’t change, then Senate President Stanley Rosenberg believes the state will lose growth.
“Overall, in general, the commonwealth as a whole, we are a high-quality state for life, work, building businesses, and quality of life. But we are being compromised in terms of the next generation of this because we don’t have transportation infrastructure and we don’t have the education infrastructure. We are in a stall of education funding for 15 years now and we’re stalled in closing the achievement gap,” Rosenberg said. Read more about the Senate President meeting with Berkshire officials here >>