Immigrant advocates on Thursday lobbied for expanded eligibility of a tax credit that's seen as a key tool to prevent poverty and improve education outcomes among low-income households.
About 21,000 to 26,000 households that are not currently eligible for the state Earned Income Tax Credit due to their immigration status stand to benefit from the expansion, according to the Healthy Families Tax Credits Coalition.
A requirement for sexual assault and molestation insurance has more than doubled the cost of hiring buses to take Saugus High School students to and from the senior prom later this spring, the class president said.
The initial price quote from the first bus company the seniors tried came in at $4,000 for four buses. But that company didn't have the required insurance. From a bus company that does have it, the cost zoomed to $8,500 plus a $750 fee for an on-site supervisor, senior class president Jessica Bremberg told the Saugus School Committee, the elected board that oversees the town's public schools.
