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Maryland’s state budget inherently presents barriers to prosperity for people of color and has done so for years, according to a report issued Tuesday by a liberal think tank.

If elected, Jealous says he’d raise Maryland’s minimum wage from the $10.10 an hour that’s to take effect in July to $15 an hour, a proposal that’s been tossed around the statehouse for several years without much success.

Many Maryland public schools routinely rank among the best in the nation thanks in large part to our state’s longstanding commitment to investing in education. Looking only at per-pupil spending, like in the recent Baltimore Business Journal article “Five Maryland

Maryland Center on Economic Policy Executive Director Benjamin Orr speaks about policy choices that will drive broadly shared prosperity in Maryland on the Our Maryland podcast. Listen

While state lawmakers have carved out more relief for younger taxpayers, the working poor, military retirees, small businesses and retired corrections officers, they decided they had to delay more relief for all taxpayers until they could see precisely how much

Aaron Wiener, a senior editor at Mother Jones, shared a startling picture of how the geography of American poverty has changed in a recent Washington Post op-ed. Of course, the notion that poverty has suburbanized isn’t exactly new; here’s an

Wealthier, whiter areas also have experienced rising suburban poverty. Montgomery County, among the wealthiest counties in the country, had the region’s largest increase in poverty between 2007 and 2010, when the census showed for the first time that it was