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Emergency_Address_51 OP t1_iu74c8g wrote

Reply to comment by Banea-Vaedr in Just in case any resident of the four most western countries had ANY doubt of their position in the minds of the rest of the state... "Western Mass.. I don't even understand as a concept," says one Bay Stater. by Emergency_Address_51

80% of Holyoke's $100 million dollar school budget comes from chapter 70 funding. Even if the school's failing, $100 million dollars is A LOT of great paying jobs, that in turn create more jobs. Massachusetts Schools are so fantastically financed that even "failing" school systems still make their communties better off.

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Banea-Vaedr t1_iu74vap wrote

Boston sucking the life out of WMA to fuel its own economic boom is always bad

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Emergency_Address_51 OP t1_iu75c80 wrote

https://www.statista.com/statistics/248063/per-capita-us-real-gross-domestic-product-gdp-by-state/#:~:text=Out%20of%20all%2050%20states,GDP%2C%20at%2035%2C374%20U.S.%20dollars.

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Mass is practically tied for state with the highest per capita income.

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Banea-Vaedr t1_iu75es2 wrote

And the distribution is awful because all the benefits go to Boston

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