網協年會談人工智慧、區塊鍊 李震宇、曹江山交接會長

紐英崙中華資訊網路協會幹部與嘉賓講者合影。前排右起，高弘，王振榕，楊湛萍，張曉凡，陳君瑤，周莉，曹江山，倪繼紅，曾良恩(Mitchell Dong)，張志斌，李震宇，彭小蘅，以及吳凡，Katy Jiang等人。(網協提供)

網協在會末頒獎感謝有功幹部。(周菊子攝)

(Boston Orange 周菊子麻州報導)紐英崙中華資訊網路協會( NECINA ) 16日在麻州Chelmsford瑞迪森酒店舉辦2018年會，談數字化未來，區塊鍊應用，展示會員企業、贊助商產品，表揚義工，頒獎給YES青少年創業賽優勝者。會長李震宇宣佈，曹江山七月一日起接任會長，吳凡為副會長，總經理仍為倪繼紅。
網協在年會前的五月五日，舉行董事會，還通過了陳君瑤，陸德禮，許基康，陶東斌連任董事，吳錦城回任董事長。

這一整天的會議，有八場演講，一場展示，一場座談，內容包括人工智能，醫療，物聯網，區塊鍊。

網協董事會陸德理(左)頒發特別獎給會長李震宇。(周菊子攝)

第一場演講是麻省理工學院媒體實驗室研究科學家何蘭德(Javier Hernandez)的”情緒智力科技化(Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology)”。他闡述自己用人機交互、機器學習、電腦視覺、心理學和心理生理學等技術，研發出來的科技感應產品，包括生物眼鏡，借谷歌眼鏡來查看個人內在狀況；感應鍵盤或鼠標，從使用狀況就可看出個人所感受壓力多寡。他也正在和汽車公司合作，把相關研究應用在確保駕駛情緒安穩，增加行車安全上。

哈佛大學醫學院副教授周莉談的則是”醫療健保中的大數據與人工智能”，她指出醫療界已廣泛應用大數據來改善醫療診斷流程，但治療不同疾病的應用，還須深入研究。
曾參加網協創業培訓，年前在”麻州挑戰”中贏得名次，2016年時已籌得共965萬元的TVision Insights，由共同創辦人暨執行長劉延豐(Yan Liu)闡述該公司技術，如何讓廣告主或節目製作人更準確查察觀眾收視率。

網協會長李震宇(右)頒發會長獎給總幹事倪繼紅(左)。(周菊子攝)

腦控(BrainCo)和腦機器人公司的創辦人暨執行長韓璧丞談”腦機互動-通往數位未來之橋”。韓璧丞這公司起初以讓人用腦波開關電燈，引人注目，在2016年時籌得550萬元。後來他們把相關技術用於改善學生的學習注意力上，2017年簽下哈佛教育學院院長做顧問後，更從中國投資人那兒共籌得1500餘萬元，發展快速。

網協董事陶東斌(右)頒獎給候任會長曹江山。(周菊子攝)

下午的會議，以區塊鍊為主，先由Nancy Li和徐永光介紹常軍和蕭廣松共同創辦的bcdXlab，以區塊鍊做平台，建構電玩遊戲社區，買賣虛擬貨品，並用以太幣等虛擬貨幣進行交易。Nancy Li在會中指出，”迷戀貓(Cryptokitties)”是世界上的第一款區塊鍊遊戲之一，人們收藏並交易”迷戀貓”。

根據網上Niel de la Rouviere的資料，”迷戀貓”售價甚至高達114,481.59元。玩家在”迷戀貓”這虛擬動物上已花的錢，約等於670萬元。

數位貨幣投資人曾良恩(右二)主持區塊鍊座談。右起為講者柏曉俊，
袁佳怡，馬滿才(Albert Ma), Marie Leaf，以及網協
總經理倪繼紅，徐永光。(周菊子攝)

既是企業家，也買賣，投資比特幣的曾良恩(Mitchell Dong)，應網協邀請，分享”他是怎麼，又為什麼進入這虛擬貨幣世界”的經歷，他還主持了一場區塊鍊座談，邀恆天軟件創新長馬滿才(Albert Ma)，Kadena的Marie Leaf，FL GROUP UK 有限公司市場行銷長袁佳怡，以及律師柏曉俊分享他們對區塊鍊的應用，發展看法。

下午部分的會議，還有IBM華生(Watson)及雲平台架構師(Architect)張志斌談”區塊鍊- 轉變著供應鏈及物流業”，Media Shower執行長John Hargrave談”美國及中國可以在區塊鍊上怎麼合作”，CIMCON Lighting產品管理主任George Clernon談”互聯網，智慧城市觀點”。

會末，網協還頒獎給即將卸任的會長李震宇等一眾工作人員，也頒獎給青少年創業項目(YES)的兩組優勝團隊，Puravida及Caja。(圖片已於6/18發表)

韓璧丞闡述腦機互動。(網協提供，徐劍攝)

吳凡將接任副會長。(周菊子攝)

曾良恩(Mitchell Dong)聆聽提問。(周菊子攝)

IBM的張志斌和MIT媒體實驗室的Javier Hernandez。(網協提供)

徐永光(左)，李冉星(右)等人介紹bcdXLab的區塊鍊應用。(周菊子攝)

網協青少年創業比賽，Puravida組奪冠，贏得1200元獎金。
Ron O'Brien(左)代表贊助商賽默飛(Thermo Fisher)頒獎。(周菊子攝)

網協青少年創業比賽CAJA組亞軍，得獎金800元。(周菊子攝)

網協年會展示攤位，蕭民(左二)像劍橋美國高中聯盟共同創辦人
高建新(右二)，網協董事陶東斌(左)做示範。(周菊子攝)

Go To Bus創辦人陳尚平(左)和螞蟻自行車大波士頓負責人鍾霖研究
軟體。(周菊子攝)

網協幹部高弘(左)自己創辦的公司也來擺攤展示。(周菊子攝)

螞蟻自行車也在網協年會中擺出佈告，
做宣傳。(周菊子攝)

網協年會晚宴在華森市醫辦公室大樓舉辦，60多人出席。(網協提供)

網協年會晚宴在華森市醫辦公室大樓舉辦，60多人出席。(網協提供)

台灣盃壘球賽 竹蜻蜓二度封冠

三隊代表賽後合影。(僑教中心提供)

波士頓經文處長徐佑典(左一)頒獎給冠軍隊竹蜻蜓。右一為
竹蜻蜓壘球俱樂部創辦人王志維。(僑教中心提供)

            (Boston Orange 周菊子牛頓市報導)第二屆臺灣盃壘球賽(Formosa Cup)，三隊在牛頓市的奧本代爾海灣公園遊樂場輪戰半日後，竹蜻蜓再度奪冠，紐英崙中華公所居次，波士頓經文處隊志在促進社區藉體育活動增加交流，欣然殿後。

             到任才二個半月的波士頓經文處長徐佑典，開場致詞時就直接說，他自己還是第一次上壘球場，大家”Don’t work too hard”，挑明這場壘球活動雖是比賽，志在聯誼，別太認真。紐英崙中華公所主席陳家驊致詞，也笑語如珠。現場氣氛十分歡樂。

             當天的球賽由竹蜻蜓壘球俱樂部創辦人王志維統籌，駐波士頓台北經濟文化辦事處，紐英崙中華公所，竹蜻蜓壘球俱樂部三隊，捉對各賽一場，計總分定勝負。

紐英崙中華公所隊合影。(陳文浩提供)

             首戰的兩隊教練，經文處隊的僑教中心主任歐宏偉，中華公所隊曾任真正球隊教練的余樹昌，很認真，比賽前把規則討論得很清楚，還安排了至少練球一次，加強實戰能力。

             經文處隊這天徵招了傭兵球員陳式儀，全隊陣容最是整齊劃一，幾乎每人都穿了印有粉彩台灣圖案的經文處壘球隊T恤，戴著有台灣字樣球帽，出賽前還煞有介事的手疊手，圍成一圈喊加油。徐佑典也認真要求教練歐宏偉慎重安排打擊順序。

開賽前，中華公所隊與經文處處長徐佑典，杜麗雲夫婦，(前右二、三)波士頓僑教中心
主任歐宏偉(右一)合影。前排左起，雷國輝，陳文浩，朱蘇珊，中華公所主席陳家驊。
(周菊子攝)

             不過，平常不打球的人，臨時抱佛腳不容易。第一局球賽，經文處隊只上到一壘，就已經三人出局。從小學後就沒摸過球棒的經文處處長夫人杜麗雲，還意外受傷，兩條腿突然痛到不行，直冒冷汗的跌坐在地。

             中華公所隊今年擴大招兵買馬，不但把曾赴伊拉克戰場，新加入中華公所當董事的司徒文信找來加入團隊，公所主席陳家驊，財政陳文浩都把自己的子女帶了來，讓第二代做生力軍。近年加入廣教學校服務行列的羅燕玲，也是中華公所隊這次的新成員。

開賽前展示冠軍唄。左起，紐英崙中華公所主席陳家驊，波士頓經文處
處長徐佑典，竹蜻蜓隊隊長王志維，波士頓僑教中心主任歐宏偉。
(周菊子攝)

             這天的比賽，其實有點像慶祝父親節，也是家庭聯誼會，各隊都超多父子檔，家人組，經文處處長徐佑典，僑教中心主任歐宏偉，經文處新聞組趙昌倫，中華公所主席陳家驊，中華公所財政陳文浩都是父子兵上陣，女兒，妻子等家人也全是團隊成員，於是球場上球員競比揮棒，守壘，球場外觀賽群邊話家常，邊發號施令，指揮場上不諳規則的球員奔一壘，搶二壘，回本壘。

             這場比賽的竹蜻蜓俱樂部隊，由陳宏豪擔任隊長，是台客隊和黑熊隊組的聯合兵團，隊員新舊交加，不但都年輕，還都有更豐富打壘球經驗，其中最老資格的應是曾歷年參賽的王安宇，最新的是剛從佛羅里達州搬過來才幾個月的小夥子。

             比賽結果，竹蜻蜓隊仗著年輕，經驗，球技，毫不令人意外的蟬聯冠軍，又把大獎盃抱回去，再保管一年。(圖片已於6/17日發表)

波士頓經文處處長徐佑典作狀捧走大獎盃，超開心。(周菊子攝)

波士頓僑教中心主任歐宏偉指揮拍照列陣。(周菊子攝)

開賽前，陳余寶愛(右二)和經文處處長徐佑典(左起)，僑教中心主任
歐宏偉，竹蜻蜓隊王志維，中華公所主席陳家驊等人釐清兩隊狀況。
(周菊子攝)

經文處隊由處長徐佑典(左起)，杜麗雲夫婦，僑教中心主任歐宏偉等
上場前打氣，喊加油。右一為廖萬安，右藍帽者為趙昌倫，接著是
陳式儀。周菊子攝)

波士頓經文處處長徐佑典(前右起)開球，王志維為開球做捕手。
(周菊子攝)

中華公所隊的新生力軍之一是羅燕玲(右起)，汗朱蘇珊，陳家驊，
翁宇才等人場邊會談。(周菊子攝)

經文處三朵金花，林美呈，洪麗玲。(周菊子攝)

經文處處長夫人杜麗雲排第一棒。(周菊子攝)

經文處處長徐佑典排第二棒。(周菊子攝)

中華公所主席陳家驊的兒子陳節存跑壘。(周菊子攝)

陳文浩的兒子Adam Chan揮棒。(周菊子攝)

司徒文信(左)是中華公所今年的生力軍之一。(周菊子攝)

中華公所另一名生力軍羅燕玲(左)。(周菊子攝)

阮鴻燦揮棒英姿。(周菊子攝)

僑教中心主任歐宏偉的兒子被視為強棒之一。(周菊子攝)

台灣盃壘球賽遙祝台灣總統，副總統就職兩周年。(周菊子攝)

CITY OF BOSTON TO HOST NEIGHBORHOOD JOB FAIR IN DORCHESTER

CITY OF BOSTON TO HOST NEIGHBORHOOD JOB FAIR IN DORCHESTER

BOSTON - Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - On Thursday, June 28, the City of Boston invites residents to participate in a Neighborhood Career Fair in Dorchester, offering participants the opportunity to explore employment opportunities within the City of Boston and private companies. The job fair is being hosted by the City's Office of Diversity. The event will be held at the Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Perkins Community Center in Dorchester, and residents are encouraged to attend to learn more about career opportunities from the 30 participating employers. WHEN:           Thursday, June 28, 2018                        5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE:        BCYF Perkins Community Center                       155 Talbot Ave, Dorchester WHO: Representatives from: Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Northeastern University TD Garden Boston Centers for Youth & Families City of Boston Office of Diversity Massachusetts Department of Corrections New England Center for Arts & Technology Boston Water & Sewer Commission Boston Public Health Commission Whole Foods Market High Sierra Pools Inc Boston Red Sox Judge Rotenberg Center Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Massachusetts State Police Boston EMS Encore Boston Harbor Northeast Center for Tradewomen's Equity Boston Fire Department USO New England City of Boston Inspectional Services Department Make A Wish Foundation Building Pathways Boston Uphams Corner Health Center

AG HEALEY CALLS ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO END IMMORAL FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY IMMEDIATELY

AG HEALEY CALLS ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO END IMMORAL FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY IMMEDIATELY 
AG Healey Joins Coalition of 21 Attorneys General in Calling on the Trump Administration to Immediately End Policy of Separating Families at Border

BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in calling on United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to immediately end the Department of Justice’s cruel and illegal “zero tolerance” policy of forcibly separating children from their families at the border.

“What the Trump administration is doing is immoral and reprehensible,” said AG Healey. “It’s unimaginable that the President would try to play politics by tearing babies from their mothers and leaving toddlers stranded and crying. As a matter of basic humanity, and for the good this country represents, the Trump Administration needs to immediately end this horrible policy.”

In a letter sent today to AG Sessions and Secretary Nielsen, the attorneys general argue that the “zero tolerance” policy the Trump Administration announced in April is not only inhumane, but it is a violation of due process and equal protection. The policy requires immediate separation of children from their parents and criminal prosecution of all adults who enter illegally at the southern border, including those seeking asylum. Under the new policy, adults who enter the United States are brought to federal prisons instead of immigration detention centers, their children are placed with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, and there is no apparent plan for reunification of these families.

 “Put simply, the deliberate separation of children and their parents who seek lawful asylum in America is wrong. This practice is contrary to American values and must be stopped,” the attorneys general write in the letter to Sessions and Nielson.

AG Healey and the coalition of attorneys general contend that these policies are violations of international, federal and state law. According to the letter, laws and judicial precedents almost universally state that children’s best interests are in remaining with their parents, absent a rigorous judicial inquiry. The Department of Justice is inflicting devastating and long-lasting trauma on thousands of innocent children.

        The letter also reads, “These practices directly interfere with the efforts of our offices and other law enforcement officials—locally, nationally, and internationally—to prevent and prosecute crime,” including human trafficking, drug trafficking, and gang violence offenses.

Joining AG Healey in sending the letter are the attorneys general of New Mexico, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.

150+ Groups Urge Federal Court to Strike Census Citizenship Question

150+ Groups Urge Federal Court to Strike Census Citizenship Question

WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Muslim Advocates, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and 149 other grassroots, advocacy, labor, legal services, and other organizations today submitted a 

The groups write in part:

“A fair and accurate 2020 census is a critical civil rights issue. Not only is the constitutionally mandated census central to apportioning political power at every level of government, but the data collected also influence the annual allocation of more than $800 billion in federal money, along with countless policy and investment decisions by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private enterprise. Given its foundational importance to American government and society, the census must be above partisan politics. The misguided decision to reverse seventy years of consistent census practice and insert an untested citizenship question undermines the integrity of the count, damages our communities, and violates the Census Bureau’s constitutional and statutory duties to conduct a full enumeration of the U.S. population.”

The brief notes that the Census Bureau itself has long opposed adding a citizenship question precisely because it would lead to an undercount, which would “impact hard-to-count populations disproportionately.” The brief also notes that collecting citizenship data would undermine enforcement of the Voting Rights Act because it would “undercount the minority populations who rely on that data to bring VRA claims.”

The State of New York was joined by 17 states, Washington D.C., and nine cities, four counties, and the bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors in challenging the late addition of a citizenship question, which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross agreed to add on March 26 in response to a December 2017 request of the Justice Department.  

哈佛報告:美國人擁有住宅率持平 房價漲幅八倍於收入增長

The Joint Center for Housing Studies releases its 2018 State of the Nation’s Housing report

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Since the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies first released its seminal State of the Nation’s Housing report in 1988, more than 40 million housing units have been built in the U.S., the country has added 27 million new households, and last year’s national homeownership rate of 63.9 percent was very close to the 64 percent rate of the late 1980s. At the same time, however, the number of Americans burdened by housing costs has risen by nearly 14 million households over the last 30 years, the number of households with student loan debt has nearly doubled, and the gap between black and white homeownership has widened. 

These and other findings are detailed in the Center’s 2018 State of the Nation’s Housing report being released today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. 

“By many metrics, the U.S. housing market in 2018 is on sound footing,” said Chris Herbert, managing director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. “But a number of challenges highlighted in the first State of the Nation’s Housing report 30 years ago persist today, and in many respects the situation has worsened for both the lowest-income Americans and those higher up the income ladder.”

Growing income inequality has helped drive the increase in cost-burdened households. According to the report, the real median income of households in the bottom quartile increased only 3 percent between 1988 and 2016, while the median income for adults aged 25 to 34 rose by just 5 percent. Meanwhile, the median home price grew 41 percent faster than inflation between 1990 and 2016, the median rent grew 20 percent faster, and the nation had 2.5 million fewer units renting for less than $800 a month (in real terms). 

The increases in prices and rents combined with a growing lack of subsidies for low-income households mean that nearly a third of all households (38.1 million) paid more than 30 percent of their incomes for housing in 2016, the widely-accepted metric for affordability. These include 20.8 million renters (47 percent), and of these, 11 million pay more than half their income for housing (see interactive map). While these figures are down slightly from their peak during the recession, they are significantly higher than in previous decades.

“If incomes had kept pace with the economy's growth over the past 30 years, they would have easily matched the rise in housing costs,” notes Daniel McCue, a senior research associate at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and lead author of the report. “But that hasn’t happened.”

The Harvard report also points to constraints in the supply of new housing, which is helping fuel affordability challenges. Construction started on 1.2 million new housing units in 2017, up slightly from 2016. The entire increase last year came from single-family starts, which were up 8.6 percent but, at just 849,000 units in 2017, remained well below the 1.1 million per year historical average. In contrast, multifamily starts declined by 9.7 percent to 354,100 units. The relative lack of new housing, along with Americans’ decreasing propensity to move, limited the number of homes for sale, which dropped to record lows in 2017. 

As a result, house prices rose 6.2 percent in 2017 and now top their pre-crisis peaks in a majority of the nation’s largest metros. While rents also increased by a more modest 3.7 percent, there are signs that rent increases are slowing and vacancies are increasing, particularly for new, high-end units.

The easing of conditions in the rental market reflects the fact that, after a decade of soaring rental demand, U.S. households are returning to homebuying. The national homeownership rate rose for the first time in 13 years to 63.9 percent last year, up 0.5 percentage point from its low in 2016. Although the overall rate is now similar to the rate that prevailed in the late-1980s, the gap in black and white homeownership rates is larger than it was 30 years ago and homeownership rates among young adults is down sharply.

Overall, the new report shows that, if the nation is to make real progress in addressing its housing challenges, there is a clear need to expand assistance for those beyond the market’s reach. “We need strategies to help the private sector produce more moderately-priced housing,” said Herbert. “Doing so will require new approaches for making effective use of public funding, reducing construction costs, and easing regulatory barriers.”

麻州年薪百萬居民 波士頓最多 2131人

(Boston Orange)根據麻州政府2015年資料，麻州有15,900年薪百萬人士，都住哪兒，你知道嗎?

麻州最高法院在6月18日否決了所謂的”百萬富翁稅(millionaires tax)”這選票問題。波士頓環球報順勢做了個麻州百萬年薪人士調查，得出結果並不令人意外，高收入人士幾乎集中居住在衛斯頓(Weston)，多佛(Dover)，衛斯理(Wellesley)等等這些市鎮。

根據可取得的最新麻州政府資料，2015年麻州有15,900人申報的調整後年收入高於100萬元。這裡說的是年收入100萬元，不是個人擁有資產100萬元。

換言之，在那一年內，每一千名麻州居民中，就有2人年收入超過100萬元。

當然，在某些社區，這比率更高。

衛斯頓(Weston)比率最高，每1000人中有46人，其次為多佛(Dover )，有37人，衛斯理(Wellesley) (30)，曼徹斯特(Manchester) (21)，林肯(Lincoln) (19)。

如果以絕對數目來看，波士頓最多年薪百萬人士，有2,131人，其次是牛頓市(Newton)， 1,276人，接著衛斯理(Wellesley)，864人，衛斯頓(Weston) 548人，布魯克蘭(Brookline)490人。

向百萬富翁徵稅 最高法院不同意?

(Boston Orange)麻州最高法院以5對2票，否決了向年薪逾百萬人士徵稅的選票問題，打擊了激進人士及勞工組織士氣，也讓今秋選舉少了一個爭議話題。

           最高法院彷如站到了企業團體這邊，認為該提案不合憲法。

           該辦法要求向收入超過一百萬者徵收更高比率的賦稅，以期麻州在新年度可有大約20億元新稅收進帳。

           最高法院這裁決，勢將震動麻州政界。

民主黨籍的兩名麻州州長候選人，馬希(Bob Massie)和甘沙雷(Jay Gonzalez)都大力支持這徵稅提案，民主黨相關人員也希望這選票問題能在11月時帶動左傾選民出席投票。

一些民主黨員說，法院的決定將使州議員們更需要考慮增稅或加費。

           即將卸下麻州參議會議長職位的參議員Harriette L. Chandler說，”我們得很有創意，認真找可能的新稅收來源，以因應麻州正面對的，非常實在的挑戰”。波士頓市長馬丁華殊(Martin Walsh)也這麼認為。他說，沒人想加稅，但是無論是道路，橋梁或教育等這些基礎建設，麻州和波士頓都面對著些很嚴重的問題。

                       法院的這一拒絕裁定，讓麻州民主黨在今年的州長選舉中失去一個打擊麻州現任州長查理貝克(Charlie Baker)的武器。

                         查理貝克多年來都拒絕對這選票問題表態。他說他不是加稅的大粉絲，法院的決定意味著麻州必須繼續向前，在基礎建設，教育上，以現有可用的工具，繼續投資，而他們做得挺好。

           麻州議員們有權訂定任何數量的新稅，費用，或評估辦法，但麻州憲法禁止他們向不同程度收入人士以不同稅率徵費。選票問題要求向年收入超過100萬元人士加稅4%。也就是第一個100萬元的收入，會以現行的5.1%稅率徵費，但超過100萬元門檻之後的收入，稅率就提高為9.1%。

           麻州稅務局估計過，這辦法在2019年可為麻州增加大約160億元到220億元收入。

企業團體反對這辦法，在法院辯稱那不合法，因為那混合了並不相關的多件事情，包括在交通，在教育上的開銷。麻州憲法規定選票問題主旨必須相關，或相互依賴。

大部分的法官都這麼同意。副法官Frank M. Gaziano寫道，這問題讓選民支持加稅，但未指明資金要用來支持哪個議題，或不理會哪個議題。

他也寫著，如果選民不想把額外取得的經費同時用在交通或教育上，該辦法不讓選民做選擇，

 “扶養麻州(Raise Up Massachusetts)”在一份聲明中表示，大約15萬7000名選民簽署了請願書，才讓這”公平分享修訂法(Fair Share Amendment)”這問題有資格列在選票上，企業團體竟然會推翻它，很讓人震驚。

          副法官Kimberly S. Budd和主法官Ralph D. Gants持不同意見，認為拒絕這一提案，基本上是法院干擾了民眾行使憲法所賦予的立法權。

不過退休的最高法院法官Robert J. Cordy表示，支持者可能過度操作，在一個問題裏要求太多，而不是單純的要向高收入者額外徵稅。

法院的決定，對今年可能呈現在選民面前的幾個重要政治問題的結果，可能會有影響。

                      由勞工，宗教人士及社區團體組成，主要由工會經費支持的聯盟，”扶養麻州”，支持這徵稅提案之外，還支持把麻州最低時薪提高至15元的選票問題，以及規定家庭假及醫療假是有薪假。

                          麻州零售業者協會也正推動法案，想要把銷售稅降低為5%，一旦成功，將使州政府稅收減少10億元左右。

                        最後一輪向麻州政府選務辦公室遞交簽名，申請選票問題的截止日期是七月三日。