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A Tufts Hip-Hop Album Just Dropped

30 students, led by professional rapper and inaugural Alan Solomont Artist/Scholar-in-Residence Dee-1, create an album around topics including cultural diversity, financial literacy, homelessness, and more.
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Strategic Vision

Our North Star, building robust, inclusive democracy for an increasingly multiracial society, helps situate Tufts as an academic leader in a society in which democracy is at risk, and in which there is a need for just and effective governance for a emerging multiracial societies.
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Big Data for Democracy

Tisch College has one of the biggest research teams in the U.S. devoted to understanding the challenges to our democracy—and the opportunities to build and sustain it. We use that scholarship to inform our own programming at Tufts and to drive national conversations about voting and elections, the role of citizens, the health of democratic institutions, and the power of young people.

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Find Your Civic Pathway

At Tisch College, every Tufts student—whatever their field of study, school or degree program—has a pathway to civic engagement.

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Find Your Civic Pathway

At Tisch College, every Tufts student—whatever their field of study, school or degree program—has a pathway to civic engagement.

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Boston, we have a property tax problem

This article cites research from cSPA that projected declining office values could cumulatively drag Boston’s tax revenue as much as $1.5 billion below prior estimates over the next five years.
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Massachusetts' millionaire tax

Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, discusses the impact of Massachusetts' “millionaire’s tax,” noting “the net effect is still that the state has more revenue because of this tax than it would have otherwise.”
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