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February 07, 2012

Home Funders breakfast forum explores how permanent housing for very low income families provides the platform for positive changes in health, education, employment and asset-building.

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As Commonwealth magazine reports, domestic video game sales totaled $15 billion in 2010 — $5 billion more than domestic box office revenue.

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Report: 10,000 more prison beds needed by 2020

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State report debunks “wind turbine syndrome”

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AG renews call for revisions to Green Communities Act

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Republished here from CommonWealth magazine's Fall 2011 Editor's Note.

By Bruce Mohl

In 1996, the first issue of CommonWealth magazine featured a cover story on the changing economics of middle-class life in Massachusetts. The story focused on Heritage Road in Billerica, where the residents were doing reasonably well but having some doubts about the promise of the American Dream.

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