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Leadership. The current Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development is Lauren Jones, who was appointed by Governor Maura Healey in January 2023.. Mission. The EOLWD missions is to enhance the quality, diversity and stability of Massachusetts' workforce by making available new opportunities and training, protecting the rights of workers, preventing workplace injuries and illnesses, ensuring ...
The state joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in 2009, though the Compact has not yet achieved sufficient national support to be activated. Executive. Massachusetts has 151 departments or agencies and over 700 independent boards and commissions.
The MSP was established by Massachusetts state governor John A. Andrew when he signed a law creating the State Constabulary on May 16, 1865. This legislative act to "establish a State Police Force", founded the first statewide enforcement agency in the nation. The first leader of the State Police was William Sterling King, an American officer ...
The proposed budget is $150 million less than the one proposed in January by Gov. Maura Healey. Speaker Ronald Mariano, D-Quincy, said the House had maintained its focus on fiscal responsibility ...
On Thursday, Gov. Maura Healey (D-Mass.) signed an executive order to eliminate “unnecessary” degree requirements from most state job listings. Announcing the change in a speech at the Boston ...
The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (MassDevelopment) was created in 1998 under Chapter 23G of the Massachusetts General Laws, [1] which merged the Massachusetts Government Land Bank with the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency. Both a lender and developer, MassDevelopment works with businesses, nonprofits, financial institutions ...
Thomas H. Buckley, the final chairman of the commission, was the state's first commissioner of administration and finance. [5] In 1969, the state legislature passed a bill introduced by Governor John A. Volpe and backed by his successor, Francis Sargent , that reorganized the state government under a cabinet-style system.
The treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of treasurer and receiver-general (commonly called the "state treasurer") became an elective one in 1780.