The lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to support fare-free public transit nationwide, including a free MBTA.

These programs are “an economic, racial, and climate justice issue," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District, said.

During a Senate Environment Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) asked Safe Routes Partnership Managing ...

Mass., have reintroduced education bills that would increase minimum salaries for teachers and the minimum wage for support ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats on the U.S. Senate's health committee launched an investigation on Tuesday into Health ...

U.S. Senator Edward Markey on Sunday pressed the Trump administration for explanations regarding what he called contradictory policies on foreign a ...

In Massachusetts, the freeze translated into $108 million withheld, leaving many districts scrambling to ensure they could ...

AARP is supporting two pieces of bipartisan, bicameral legislation to combat these practices. Making billing more transparent ...

The Wu administration is directing $5 million in grant funding toward community organizations with the aim of narrowing a life expectancy gap in three low-income neighborhoods where residents die ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined U.S. Senator ...

A group of Democratic senators are calling out the Trump administration on what they call its “increasingly inconsistent” policies toward Haiti, demanding answers on both its stance on immigration and ...