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Massachusetts Population, Income, Education, Employment, and Federal Funds
| Massachusetts Population |
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Total |
| Year |
| 1980 |
5,737,093 |
| 1990 |
6,016,425 |
| 2000 |
6,349,097 |
| 2009 (latest estimates) |
6,593,587 |
| Massachusetts Income |
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Total |
| Massachusetts Per-capita income (2008 dollars) |
| 2007 |
49,644 |
| 2008 |
50,897 |
| Percent change |
-1.3 |
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| Massachusetts Earnings per job (2008 dollars) |
| 2007 |
62,297 |
| 2008 |
60,552 |
| Percent change |
-2.8 |
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| Massachusetts Poverty rate (percent) |
| 1979 |
9.6 |
| 1989 |
8.9 |
| 1999 |
9.3 |
| 2008 (latest model-based estimates) |
10.1 |
| Massachusetts Education (Persons 25 and older) |
| |
Total |
| Massachusetts Percent not completing high school |
| 1980 |
16.1 |
27.8 |
| 1990 |
20.0 |
| 2000 |
15.2 |
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| Massachusetts Percent completing high school only |
| 1980 |
36.4 |
| 1990 |
29.7 |
| 2000 |
27.3 |
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| Massachusetts Percent completing some college |
| 1980 |
15.8 |
| 1990 |
23.0 |
| 2000 |
24.3 |
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| Massachusetts Percent completing college |
| 1980 |
20.0 |
| 1990 |
27.2 |
| 2000 |
33.2 |
| Massachusetts Employment |
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Total |
| Massachusetts Total number of jobs |
| 2007 |
4,186,896 |
| 2008 |
4,251,139 |
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| Massachusetts Percent employment change |
| 2006-2007 |
0.8 |
| 2007-2008 |
0.0 |
| 2008-2009 |
-3.1 |
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| Massachusetts Unemployment rate (percent) |
| 2008 |
5.3 |
| 2009 |
8.4 |
| Massachusetts Federal Funds, FY 2008 |
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Total |
| Massachusetts Federal funding, dollars per person |
| Massachusetts All Federal funds |
10,766 |
| |
| Massachusetts Federal funding by purpose |
| Massachusetts Agriculture and natural resources |
8 |
| Massachusetts Community resources |
722 |
| Massachusetts Defense and space |
1,772 |
| Massachusetts Human resources |
190 |
| Massachusetts Income security |
6,185 |
| Massachusetts National functions |
1,890 |
| |
| Massachusetts Federal funding by type of payments |
| Massachusetts Grants |
2,799 |
| Massachusetts Direct loans |
189 |
| Massachusetts Guaranteed/insured loans |
523 |
| Massachusetts Retirement/disability payments |
2,563 |
Massachusetts Other direct payments to
individuals |
1,979 |
Massachusetts Direct payments, not to
individuals |
100 |
| Massachusetts Procurement contracts |
2,040 |
| Massachusetts Salaries and wages |
572 |
Massachusetts Organic Agriculture
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2008 |
| Number of certified operations |
103 |
| Massachusetts Crops (acres) |
2,827 |
| Massachusetts Pasture & rangeland (acres) |
1,273 |
| Massachusetts Total acres |
4,099 |
Massachusetts Farm Characteristics
| Massachusetts Census of Agriculture |
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2007 |
| Massachusetts Approximate total land area (acres) |
4,992,934 |
| Massachusetts Total farmland (acres) |
517,879 |
| Percent of total land area |
10.4 |
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| Massachusetts Cropland (acres) |
187,406 |
| Percent of total farmland |
36.2 |
| Percent in pasture |
8.7 |
| Percent irrigated |
12.1 |
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| Massachusetts Harvested Cropland (acres) |
153,993 |
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| Massachusetts Woodland (acres) |
212,539 |
| Percent of total farmland |
41.0 |
| Percent in pasture |
10.3 |
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| Massachusetts Pastureland (acres) |
48,120 |
| Percent of total farmland |
9.3 |
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Massachusetts Land in house lots, ponds,
roads, wasteland, etc. (acres) |
69,814 |
| Percent of total farmland |
13.5 |
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| Massachusetts Conservation practices |
Massachusetts Farmland in conservation or
wetlands reserve programs
(acres) |
580 |
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| Massachusetts Average farm size (acres) |
67 |
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| Massachusetts Farms by size (percent) |
| 1 to 99 acres |
80.5 |
| 100 to 499 acres |
18.0 |
| 500 to 999 acres |
1.2 |
| 1000 to 1,999 acres |
0.3 |
| 2,000 or more acres |
0.1 |
| |
| Massachusetts Farms by sales (percent) |
| Less than $9,999 |
64.2 |
| $10,000 to $49,999 |
20.2 |
| $50,000 to $99,999 |
5.2 |
| $100,000 to $499,999 |
7.9 |
| More than $500,000 |
2.5 |
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| Massachusetts Tenure of farmers |
| Massachusetts Full owner (farms) |
5,647 |
| Percent of total |
73.4 |
| |
| Massachusetts Part owner (farms) |
1,373 |
| Percent of total |
17.9 |
| |
| Massachusetts Tenant owner (farms) |
671 |
| Percent of total |
8.7 |
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| Massachusetts Farm organization |
Massachusetts Individuals/family, sole
proprietorship (farms) |
6,318 |
| Percent of total |
82.1 |
| |
Massachusetts Family-held corporations
(farms) |
566 |
| Percent of total |
7.4 |
| |
| Massachusetts Partnerships (farms) |
574 |
| Percent of total |
7.5 |
| |
| Massachusetts Non-family corporations (farms) |
75 |
| Percent of total |
1.0 |
| |
Massachusetts Others - cooperative, estate or
trust, institutional, etc. (farms) |
158 |
| Percent of total |
2.1 |
| |
| Massachusetts Characteristics of principal farm operators |
| Average operator age (years) |
56.3 |
Percent with farming as their
primary occupation |
48.0 |
| Men |
5,465 |
| Women |
2,226 |
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Massachusetts Farm Financial Indicators
| Massachusetts Farm income and value added data |
| |
2008 |
| |
| Number of farms |
7,700 |
| |
| |
Thousands $ |
| Final crop output |
451,406 |
| + Final animal output |
112,785 |
| + Services and forestry |
164,397 |
| = Final agricultural sector output |
728,588 |
| |
| - Intermediate consumption outlays |
289,312 |
| + Net government transactions |
-36,488 |
| = Gross value added |
402,788 |
| |
| - Capital consumption |
80,374 |
| |
| = Net value added |
322,414 |
| |
| - Factor payments |
143,761 |
| Employee compensation (total hired labor) |
120,657 |
| Net rent received by nonoperator landlords |
-9,146 |
| Real estate and nonreal estate interest |
32,250 |
| |
| = Net farm income |
178,653 |
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Massachusetts Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties
| MA. Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2009 |
| |
Value of receipts
thousand $ |
| 1. Greenhouse/nursery |
168,784 |
| 2. Cranberries |
84,985 |
| 3. Dairy products |
34,749 |
| 4. Apples |
19,376 |
| 5. Aquaculture |
16,750 |
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| All commodities |
480,524 |
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| MA. Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2009 |
| |
Value
million $ |
| 1. Other |
62.9 |
| 2. Fruits and preparations |
16.0 |
| 3. Tobacco unmfd. |
14.3 |
| 4. Wheat and products |
13.2 |
| 5. Live animals and meat |
3.8 |
| |
| Overall rank |
118.8 |
| |
| MA. Top 5 counties in agricultural sales 2007 |
| |
Thousands $ |
| 1. Middlesex County |
81,708 |
| 2. Worcester County |
80,550 |
| 3. Plymouth County |
78,440 |
| 4. Franklin County |
56,844 |
| 5. Bristol County |
44,245 |
| |
| State total |
489,820 |
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State Offices
Massachusetts Drug Policy, Enforcement and Government Agencies
Governor's Office
Executive Office
State House, Room 360
Boston, MA 02133
(617) 727-3600
State Drug Program Coordinator
Governor's Alliance Against Drugs
John W. McCormack State Office Building
One Ashburton Place, Room 2131
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 727-0786
Attorney General's Office
Department of the Attorney General
John W. McCormack State Office Building
One Ashburton Place, Room 2010
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 727-2200
Law Enforcement Planning
Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice
Leverett Saltonstall State Office Building
100 Cambridge Street, Room 2100
Boston, MA 02202
(617) 727-6300
Crime Prevention Office
Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council
Massachusetts Crime Watch
1155 Central Avenue
Needham, MA 02192
(617) 727-1907
Statistical Analysis Center
Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice
100 Cambridge Street, Room 2100
Boston, MA 02202
(617) 727-0237
Uniform Crime Reports Contact
Massachusetts State Police
Criminal Information Section
Crime Reporting Unit
1010 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 566-4500
BJA Strategy Preparation Agency
Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice
100 Cambridge Street, Room 2100
Boston, MA 02202
(617) 727-6300
Judicial Agency
Supreme Judicial Court
Courthouse, Room 1300
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 725-8083
Corrections Agency
Department of Corrections
Leverett Saltonstall State Office Building
100 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02202
(617) 727-3301
RADAR Network Agency
Massachusetts Prevention Center
488 Essex Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
(508) 688-2323
HIV-Prevention Program
AIDS Bureau
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
150 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 727-0368
Drug and Alcohol Agency
Bureau of Substance Abuse Services
Department of Public Health
150 Tremont Street, Sixth Floor
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 727-1960
State Coordinator for Drug-Free Schools
Governor's Alliance Against Drugs
John W. McCormack State Office Building
One Ashburton Place, Room 611
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 727-0786
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When they go to the polls next month, Massachusetts voters will be asked whether they want to exempt alcohol from the state’s sales tax. Until last year, beer, wine, and liquor sold in package stores were not subject to the sales tax although customers paid a separate excise tax.
Package store owners say the sales tax has hurt their business. A new systematic review of the medical literature says taxes can have other costs.
Doubling alcohol tax rates reduces deaths by an average of 35 percent, Alexander Wagenaar and colleagues from the University of Florida report. Deaths from traffic accidents drop by 11 percent, sexually transmitted infections go down by 6 percent, violence by 2 percent, and crime by 1.4 percent, they conclude in the American Journal of Public Health.
Alcohol prices affect drinking rates: A 10 percent hike leads to about a 5 percent drop in drinking, the authors say based on previous research. To go further and assess the impact of taxes and prices on alcohol-related death, injury, and disease, the researchers pooled 340 estimates from 50 papers published in scientific journals.
The higher the taxes on alcohol were, the lower the rates of death, injury, drunk driving, car crashes, other drug use, risky sexual behavior, crime, and violence. The only exception was suicide, for which they could not find a statistically significant correlation.
“In most developed countries, alcohol is second only to tobacco a a consumer product that causes death (approximately 85,000 alcohol-related deaths per year in the United States alone),” they write. “The public health significance of our findings is therefore obvious.”
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