Dear Parks Supporter,
Massachusetts could lose as much as a billion dollars in across-the-board federal funding due to the Trump Administration's so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Meanwhile, recent reports of rising inflation, rising unemployment, and decreasing job creation are threatening to push the country, and in turn the state, into recession.
Add to that a Massachusetts initiative petition heading toward the November 2026 election ballot that could remove nearly $5 billion in income taxes from the state Treasury.
The good news is that none of this is yet cast in concrete. And no matter what comes to pass, we have a potent weapon to at least lessen the impact of all of this on our state economy in general, and on our state parks in particular.
Read more in this month's blog.