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“Six months from now, or perhaps a year, the economy should be in a better position to absorb new government spending – meaning that a slower and more deliberate process will actually make many ARP investments more impactful than they would be right now,”

Horowitz said the biggest challenge is that there are probably a dozen proposals for how to spend $1 billion each – far more than is available.

Largely lost in the political shuffle, points out Evan Horowitz, is whether the move makes any sense economically.

"Injecting stimulus this summer compounds all of these problems. It's giving people money to spend when high spending is actually an economic concern, not a virtue," Horowitz said.

Evan Horowitz and WBUR's Steve Brown discuss the implications of the proposed Massachusetts millionaires tax

“Spending this money will be easy. Spending it effectively will not,” said Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

We dive into the details and show you how the Census matters here with Ted Nesi, politics and business editor at WPRI-TV, and Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

“Even in a universe where COVID never happened, the kind of revenues I’m expecting to see would be strong,” said Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, said that people who lack broadband and reliable equipment could end up cut off from new opportunities for remote work, telehealth, distance learning and online