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Today’s student loan borrowers are carrying more types of debt and are more likely to face broader financial distress.
How and Why Philanthropies Should Consider Lived Experience in Their Grantmaking We spoke with a dozen thought leaders in the criminal legal space—including researchers, nonprofit leaders, and direct service providers—about how to consider lived experience and leadership.Nonprofit Leaders’ Concerns About Finances, Programming, and Workforce Challenges Intensified from 2024 to 2025 Evidence of shifts in the pressures nonprofits are facing can help funders, policymakers, and local leaders better understand and address the sector’s most pressing challenges.What Happens When ICE Detention Facilities Conflict with Land-Use Rules Designed to Promote the Public’s Interest? Though the federal government may be exempt from some local regulations, some states and localities are exploring policy options to ensure ICE facilities adequately protect the health and welfare of the people they detain and don’t overburden nearby communities.The State of the Union Is Expected to Focus on Affordability. What Does the Evidence Say Works? Addressing the affordability crisis will require a broad set of strategies from every level of government, including policies that tackle housing, health care, income, and more.Trump’s Proposed Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Could Affect More Than 160 Million Americans An interest rate cap would reduce borrowing costs for some Americans but could also reshape who can access credit, potentially pushing many into high-cost alternatives.Social Security Is Running Out of Money—And Congress Might Count It as Savings In its budget planning for the decade ahead, Congress should account for the projected exhaustion of Social Security’s trust fund in 2032.
