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Which Communities Stand to Lose the Most Business and Tax Revenue if Social Security Benefits Are Cut? If Social Security benefits are reduced, not only will people and families face hard decisions, but states and local businesses may also see increased budgetary pressures.Massachusetts Nonprofits Had a Growing Workforce and Diverse Revenue Streams Leading into 2025, but Government Funding Disruptions Challenge Those Strengths Data from the Nonprofit Trends and Impacts Study from 2019 to 2025 offer insights that can help nonprofits, funders, and policymakers understand and adapt to challenges like government funding disruptions.Four Steps State Education Leaders Can Take to Ensure Students Have the Math Skills They Need for In-Demand Jobs At a time when young people are facing increasing entry-level job competition, ensuring they have the math skills needed to achieve their career goals and meet local workforce needs is more important than ever.Federal Home Loan Banks Significantly Reduce the Risk of Financial Crises New research finds that banks rely more heavily on FHLBank advances during times of stress, reducing their likelihood of failure. As a result, the Federal Home Loan Banks significantly increase the banking system’s financial stability, adding value of $13.2 to $21.4 billion each year.Six Questions to Evaluate the White House’s Proposal to Extend Affordable Care Act Enhanced Premium Tax Credits With consumers already seeing higher premiums from imminently expiring enhanced premium tax credits, federal policymakers will need to ensure that any plan can be operationalized quickly and doesn’t make health care less affordable for Americans.HUD Policy Change Could Push 4,000 Veterans with Disabilities Out of Housing In the past decade, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness on any given night has been cut in half, but a new US Department of Housing and Urban Development policy threatens to undermine that progress.