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The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state. All but one of the districts are named for the counties in which they are located (the "Cape and ...
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in ...
Basic Minimum Rate (per hour) is $7.25 for employers with ten or more full time employees at any one location or employers with annual gross sales over $100,000 irrespective of number of full time employees. All other employers: Basic Minimum Rate (per hour): $2.00. Unless the employers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act, in which case ...
The governor of Massachusetts is the chief executive of the commonwealth, and is supported by a number of subordinate officers. He, like most other state officers, senators, and representatives, was originally elected annually. In 1918 this was changed to a two-year term, and since 1966 the office of governor has carried a four-year term.
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 state has an open-meeting law enforced by the attorney general, and a public-records law enforced by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. A 2008 report by the Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition ranked Massachusetts 43rd out of the 50 US states in government transparency.
The second table contains a list of U.S. states and territories by annual mean wage. Average wage in the United States was $69,392 in 2020. [1] Median income per person in the U.S. was $42,800 in 2019. [2] The average is higher than the median because there are a small number of individuals with very high earnings, and a large number of ...
Salem State University ( BA) Massachusetts School of Law ( JD) Kimberley Lord Driscoll (born August 12, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the 73rd lieutenant governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Driscoll previously served as the 50th mayor of Salem from 2006 to 2023.