Unmasking the Massachusetts High Technology Council
With the support of wealthy investors and CEOs, the Massachusetts High Technology Council (MHTC) is attempting to qualify two questions for the November 2026 ballot.
Together these questions will strip billions in funding from classrooms, hospitals, and research centers, while locking the state into a worsening cycle of painful cuts.
But who’s really behind this effort?
The High Tech Council’s membership doesn’t just include Fortune 500 companies, but universities and medical institutions who rely on the very funding the Council wants to cut.
Why would the leaders of these groups lend their institutional credibility to MHTC’s plan to slash education and healthcare funding?
We are urging leaders to do right by their students and staff by withdrawing their membership from the Massachusetts High Technology Council.
The MHTC has taken down their membership list.
Voters have a right to know which institutions continue to support a coalition that cares more about tax breaks for the wealthy than Massachusetts’ future.
Institutions that Have Resigned from the MHTC
As of 3/10/26
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UMass Boston
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UMass Lowell
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Brandeis University
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Northeastern University
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Bridgewater State University
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Bunker Hill Community College
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Commonwealth Counsel
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Massport
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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M&T Bank
Thank you to these organizations for standing up for the future of Massachusetts.
The November 2026 Ballot
Tax Breaks for Millionaires
The first question would cut the state’s income tax by 20%, giving millionaires massive tax breaks and creating a $5 billion deficit in the state budget. The second would create an increasingly restrictive cap on state investment that would lock Massachusetts into a worsening cycle of shrinking budgets and painful cuts.
Dramatic Reductions to State Revenue
Our Future on the Line
Together, these initiatives would force towns and cities across Massachusetts to lay off thousands of hard-working teachers, police officers, and firefighters, leaving families to pay the price for corporate greed.
These measures would strip billions of dollars from classrooms, hospitals, and research that Massachusetts communities depend on.
Institutional Accountability
University and Hospital Leaders Need to Oppose the Cuts
Even though these cuts would hurt education and research, some university and hospital leaders continue to support the MA High Tech Council by lending their institutions’ names as members. These leaders should be fighting for investments in their institutions and opposing cuts, not siding with a coalition that cares more about tax breaks for the wealthy than Massachusetts’ future.
We are urging leaders to do right by their students and staff and withdraw their membership from the Massachusetts High Technology Council.