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THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, MARCH 17, 2023 Page 15 HARVARD DUO ADDS NEW ENGLAND TALENT FOR 2023 NAVIGATORS Biden budget would cost Mass. taxpayers and businesses 7th highest top individual tax rate, 12th highest corporate tax rate T he Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance (MassFiscal) made the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, which is seeking to dramatically raise taxes on many struggling Massachusetts small businesses and on some highincome earners. “If President Biden’s budget LYNN, Mass. -- The North Shore Navigators have added more talent to their roster ahead of the 2023 New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) season, continuing a recent tradition with the signing of two players from nearby Harvard University. Hailing from Weston, outfielder Peter Messervy will spend his summer on the North Shore following his junior season with the Crimson. Messervy hit.266 with four doubles, three home runs, 11 RBI and 19 runs scored in 35 games in 2022, which marked his first collegiate action after having his freshman season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. His average rose to.333 during Ivy League play, and he finished the season playing errorless defense. Messervy has taken on the center field and leadoff roles this spring, compiling a.333 averTRAINING | FROM Page 13 dent, focusing on four main concepts: Whole Community, Unified Command, Integrated Response, and Planned Recovery. “Our shared goal is to leverage every possible tool to mitigate emerging threats by ensuring the Commonwealth’s ability to plan, prevent and respond to crisis events,” said EOPSS Undersecretary of Homeland Security Jeanne Benincasa Thorpe. “On average, active shooter incidents end in under 6 minutes, but the event’s enduring impact on a community can last a generation. Recovery must start before an incident occurs. An integrated program and recovery plan will enhance public safety and improve outcomes for affected communities.” “The MPTC is committed to working alongside our partners to train and deliver the ASHER statewide framework to communities across the Commonwealth. This model for crossdiscipline collaboration ensures age with six doubles, six RBI and seven runs scored through eight contests. The North Shore pitching staff will include another Harvard junior in Porter Jordheim, a 6-foot-4, 215-pounder from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Jordheim made 10 appearances during his debut season for the Crimson in 2022, including a scoreless first career start. The right-hander has maintained an important bullpen role through the first two weekends of this season, with him dealing 2.1 scoreless frames against Florida International on March 4. Messervy and Jordheim will become the sixth and seventh all-time players to join the Navigators from Harvard. Four of the first five were Massachusetts natives. Both players will enter the NECBL with previous summer that emergency responders are educated, trained, and effectively prepared to respond to potential hostile events that will aid in keeping our communities safe,” said MPTC Executive Director Robert Ferullo (Ret. Police Chief). “The MPTC will continue its work to ensure the vital methodologies and best practices in these trainings are delivered to responders across the state.” “Effective hostile event response requires first responders to work together across agencies and often across municipal lines,” said State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey. “As Massachusetts adopts NFPA 3000 as our statewide ASHER framework, joint training events like this one are vital to our goals of unified command and integrated response. Fire Academy instructors and local fire/ rescue personnel are working alongside their law enforcement counterparts just as they would under real-world conditions. They’ll bring what they learn back to their academies and ball experience. Messervy was a 2022 Futures League All-Star for the Brockton Rox, posting the sixth-best average in the circuit at.322. Jordheim pitched for the Futures League’s Vermont Lake Monsters in 2021 and the Florida Collegiate Summer League’s Seminole County Snappers in 2022. The Navs kick off their 16th summer of collegiate baseball on Wednesday, June 7 and will host their home opener at a renovated Fraser Field on Friday, June 9. The 2023 season includes 22 home games, as well as the return of the NECBL AllStar Game to Lynn on Sunday, July 23. Stay up to date on the latest Navs news by visiting nsnavs. com and following the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Single-game and season tickets are now available for purchase online. home departments to continue building that life-saving knowledge base across the Commonwealth.” “Responding to incidents of mass violence requires the vital partnerships and collaboration among numerous public safety agencies,” said State Police Interim Colonel John Mawn Jr. “The time to formulate and train on that response plan is before any such incident occurs, and for that reason, the ASHER program is critically important for first responders.” FBI data indicates that the US has experienced over 370 active shooter incidents in the last twenty years. These incidents have resulted in nearly 3,000 casualties, claiming the lives of 1,100 victims, including the death of approximately 100 members of law enforcement. Photo: State and Local Police, Fire and 911 telecommunicators participate in an integrated training exercise at Merrimack College on March 9, 2023. were passed, it would create economic harm, and tighten the squeeze on many businesses in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is already among the highest taxed states in the country. We also have to contend with some of the highest energy costs. Adding more of a tax burden will make it nearly impossible for Massachusetts businesses to remain competitive with states that have significantly lower taxes, lower costs of doing business, fewer regulations, and lower energy costs,” noted MassFiscal Spokesperson/ Board Member Paul D. Craney. Prior to last November’s narrow passage of ballot Question 1, the top combined marginal rate on individual income in Massachusetts was 42 percent. However, after the narrow passage of Question 1, the rate increased to 46 percent. President Biden’s budget seeks a further increase, resulting in a 48.6 percent top combined marginal rate on individual income in Massachusetts. Under these two scenarios, this would represent a 16 percent increase for some Massachusetts taxpayers – all in the span of a year. Massachusetts would have the highest rate in New England and the seventh highest in the country. JOB | FROM Page 12 and two-tenths of a percentage point above the nation’s unadjusted unemployment rate of 3.9 percent. Last week, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported the statewide seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the month of January 2023 was 3.6 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the revised December 2022 estimate of 3.7 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the nation’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January 2023 was 3.4 percent. The unadjusted unemployment rates and job estimates for the labor market areas reflect seasonal fluctuations and thereAdditionally, President Biden’s budget proposal would dramatically increase the top combined marginal rate on corporate income. Currently, the federal corporate tax rate is 21 percent, and President Biden’s proposal would increase it to 28 percent. The Massachusetts state corporate income tax rate would add an additional 8 percent, bringing the rate to 36 percent. Massachusetts already has the 12th highest state corporate income tax rate in the country. The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., released this data, which you can find at https://taxfoundation. org/biden-budget-taxes/ and at https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-corporate-incometax-rates-and-brackets/ “With the narrow passage of Question 1 combined with President Biden’s budget tax hike proposal, our state’s highest income earners and some small businesses would see their tax rate jump by 16 percent. That dramatic and sudden increase would force many of our state’s most highly productive to domicile to New Hampshire and Florida if they hadn’t done so already. Massachusetts would lose their tax dollars, investments, and charitable contributions. Massachusetts high income earners and small businesses would be squeezed even more by federal tax rates increasing which would give them even less of a reason to remain in such a tough environment when there are greener pastures in other states,” concluded Craney. fore may show different levels and trends than the statewide seasonally adjusted estimates. The estimates for labor force, unemployment rates, and jobs for Massachusetts are based on different statistical methodology specified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. NOTES: The preliminary February 2023 and the revised January 2023 unemployment rates, labor force data and jobs estimate for Massachusetts will be released on Friday, March 24, 2023; local unemployment statistics for February 2023 will be released on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Detailed labor market information is available at http://www.mass.gov/ EconomicResearch. See the 2023 Media Advisory for complete list of release dates.

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