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Reform Urged In Mass. Municipal Aid

By Paul Tuthill

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Springfield, MA – A new report by public policy experts at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston urges reforms in how Massachusetts distributes local aid to its 351 cities and towns. The report says the decades old, politically crafted, local aid distribution formula is not helping the communities most in need WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill reports .