Massachusetts Fair Share

Our top priority

Kids, Not Cuts!

We believe that everyone deserves a fair shot in life, and that starts with a quality education. Unfortunately, some in Congress are moving to cut billions from education. Congress already made deep cuts in early 2013 that will slash programs for 1.2 million kids and take 30,000 teachers out of classrooms. Now, House Budget Chair Paul Ryan wants to slash education funds with another $6.9 billion in cuts to our schools, our teachers, and our kids in the next year alone.

As Congress debates the education budget, Massachusetts Fair Share is working to make sure that our representatives stand up for our kids. Learn more.

Massachusetts Fair Share

Since before the American Revolution, Massachusetts has been at the forefront of the nation's economic and academic movements.  Massachusetts is home to 13 Fortune 500 companies and more than 120 colleges and universities.  The state has the skilled workforce, research institutions, and entrepreneurs to drive our country’s economic recovery.

Even as the world's new companies and industries are being started in-state, 7.3% of Bay Staters are unemployed, and more than one in ten are below the poverty line.  Massachusetts’ future depends upon smart investments that put folks back to work immediately while building a fair and sustainable economy and making the state stronger over the long haul.

That’s why Massachusetts Fair Share works to provide every Bay Stater with a fair shot at a good job, a secure future and a strong voice in our democracy by standing up to the right wing politicians and Wall Street interests who block progress at every turn.
 

OUR LEAD CAMPAIGNS

Put America Back to Work

America has work to do: We need new schools, more teachers and better roads, bridges and transit systems. At the same time, millions of people who are ready, willing and able to get these jobs done are still unemployed.
 
It’s time to put America back to work. We can rehire teachers and firefighters who were laid off in the recession. We can put people to work building and rebuilding schools and fixing our roads and bridges. And we can pay for it by cutting $200 billion in wasteful subsidies and tax loopholes for the biggest corporations.
 
Learn more about Massachusetts Fair Share's campaign to Put America Back to Work.

In a victory for Massachusetts Fair Share's Middle Class Tax Cuts First campaign, Senate leaders and the White House came together on Jan. 1 to work out a compromise deal to extend critical tax cuts for American’s income up to $450,000 for a household, preventing a major tax hike on America’s middle class. The compromise bill passed both the Senate and the House, and was signed by President Obama. The Middle Class Tax Cuts First campaign brought together Bay State small businesses and community organizations to call for extending middle class tax cuts.
 
We are grateful that President Obama, Vice President Biden and leaders in the Senate came together to craft a bipartisan bill that will extend tax cuts for the middle class. Families and small businesses can breathe easier this new year, knowing that their taxes will not go up drastically in 2013. Read more >

Get Big Money Out of Politics

Our democracy should give each of us a voice — and government should look out for us, not just for the privileged and powerful. But it doesn’t work that way. Instead, unlimited campaign spending from corporations and the richest Americans rig the system against the average voter.
 
Things are getting worse because the Supreme Court has decided that corporations are people, and that they and the wealthy can spend as much as they want on elections. Now big corporations and wealthy interests are flooding the airwaves, spending millions of dollars to elect candidates who will look out for their interests, not ours. They can spend unlimited amounts of money, without even disclosing who they are.
 
That’s just wrong. Corporations are not people, and the richest players shouldn’t get to buy our democracy.

Sign our petition to support a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics.
 

ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS FAIR SHARE

Standing up for working families & middle class values

• Massachusetts Fair Share works to provide every Bay Stater with a fair shot at a good job, a secure future and a healthy, productive life by standing up to the Tea Party conservatives and Wall Street interests who block progress at every turn.

• Through door-to-door canvassing and grassroots lobbying, we press local and national government to do its job and defend working families against the privileged and powerful.

• And, we help elect leaders who will work for a fair economy and work to defeat politicians like Sarah Palin and Mitch McConnell who place extreme ideology and corporate profits ahead of ordinary citizens.

Grassroots action that gets results

• Massachusetts Fair Share is part of the Fair Share Alliance. Together, we talked face-to-face with hundreds of thousands of voters in  critical battleground states to help elect President Obama in 2008 and prevent a wholesale Wall Street takeover of Congress in 2010.

• We followed up these efforts by reaching out in neighborhoods and activating our network of supporters to help pass measures that have saved millions of jobs and protected consumers by cracking down on health insurance companies and reining in the Wall Street mega-banks.