RESOURCE LIST
See below a select list of resources shared by our speakers related to the 2025 Budget and Tax Briefing topics.
Shaping the Narrative: Messaging Strategies for a Strong Public Sector and an Inclusive Economy
- Groundwork Collaborative’s new polling results show the Republican plan to gut vital programs and shower the ultra-wealthy with tax breaks is unpopular with voters.
Federal Budget and Tax Outlook
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is producing a series of briefs on the high-stakes federal policy debates that will take place this year, including briefs on the tax debate and policies that take food assistance and health coverage away from people who need them. In addition, CBPP is writing on executive actions, focusing largely on those that affect people with low or moderate incomes. You can follow the latest in this searchable executive action tracker.
- State Revenue Alliance’s Amber Wallin shares the states’ perspective on the 2025 national tax fight in Bloomberg, Tax Notes, and Common Dreams.
- Carol Joyner, Executive Director of Family Values @Work Action released a statement on Trump’s attempted halt to all federally supported loan and grant programs.
- Read Family Values @ Work Action’s 2025 Tax Fight Overview.
- Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) released state-specific fact sheets describing how important Medicaid is for children and families and highlighting the potential implications of federal Medicaid cuts.
- Anna Wadia, Executive Director of the Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund shares how the care movement is at the forefront of saving Medicaid and our democracy in this op-ed.
- This issue brief by Justice in Aging shares how Medicaid funding caps would harm older adults.
- Read Zero to Three’s fact sheet on what’s at stake if we reduce federal support for Medicaid.
- This commentary by The Century Foundation explains how threats to Medicaid funding would endanger child care.
- Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund handout summarizes grantee efforts on tax/revenue and care collaborations and Medicaid defense.
State Budget and Tax Outlook
- Tracking the Fallout From State Tax Cuts: This new resource from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities features stories, case studies analyses of the latest tax developments related to state tax cuts.
- PEW Fiscal 50: State Trends and Analysis: This interactive resource from The Pew Charitable Trusts, allows you to sort and analyze data on key fiscal, economic, and demographic trends in the 50 states and understand their impact on states’ fiscal health.
- Urban Institute State Fiscal Briefs: National recessions and federal tax and spending changes can affect budgets in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. And big policy questions, such as whether to increase teacher salaries or expand health care access, can pop up in many states at the same time. But each state faces unique economic, political, cultural, and historical pressures that affect how fiscal issues emerge and how problems are resolved. That’s why the State and Local Finance Initiative put together these 51 briefs, detailing the dynamics that influence major policy issues in each state.
- Read State Revenue Alliance’s one-page factsheets on tax coalition work happening in 28 states that give an overview of each state’s key partners, plans, priorities, victories, and funding needs.
- Washington Area Women’s Foundation established the DC Early Care and Education Funders Collaborative in 2008, as a multi-year, multi-million dollar collective funding effort to work on early childhood systems-change across six jurisdictions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
- Learn more about DC Action’s efforts with the Under 3 DC Coalition to protect the Pay Equity Fund
- Read this Under 3 DC report comparing the cost and benefits of the Pay Equity Fund.
- View the Under 3 DC guiding principles for decision making regarding revenue policies that will lead to the funding of world-class, well-coordinated systems of early care and education so all DC families can flourish.
- Policy Matters Ohio explains the impact of decades of tax cuts for the wealthy and provides recommendations for the revisions needed to make the tax code work for everyday Ohioans.
Responding to Attempts to Dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
- Richard Besser, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President and CEO shared a statement reaffirming a shared vision for the future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right and rededicating a commitment to take bold leaps even in the face of hostility and obstruction.
- The National Council of Nonprofits is tracking the impacts of recent executive orders on nonprofits.
- Democracy 2025 is providing real-time analysis of the Trump-Vance administration actions through a new response center.
- The Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, NYU School of Law has developed a website to orient users to the DEI legal landscape, including a DEI litigation tracker.
- American Pride Rises (APR) is an initiative committed to protecting pathways to the American Dream by fighting for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive America for all. See APR’s compilation of messaging resources.
2025 Law & Social Policy Legacy Award Winner
- EOF has named the Missouri Workers Center (MWC) the 2025 Law & Social Policy Legacy Award winner. Watch this 4-minute video to hear what some of MWC’s members have to say about the power of their work.