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Rebuilding worker power by strengthening unions is not just good policy—it is a democratic imperative in the face of authoritarian backsliding.

Recently-signed federal legislation will cut taxes for the wealthy. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) analysis of the Senate Reconciliation Bill—promoted as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—has found that its tax provisions overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest Americans, while offering less relief to working families.

The new federal reconciliation law, signed on July 4, 2025, makes significant changes to programs that will impact Granite Staters. These changes include direct interactions with individuals and families, including reducing taxes for most residents, particularly those with higher incomes, and limiting access to both health services and food assistance. The new law also impacts the financial outlooks for both the State and federal governments, which may affect subsequent policy choices and services.

Communities across California are feeling the effects of immigration raids and mass deportation efforts, both in the fabric of their communities as well as their economies. Actions and threats against employees, jobs, and neighbors will have a profound impact on our state and nation in both the short and long term. Here, we delve deeper into one aspect of why by discussing the impact immigrants have on our economy.

The 10th annual DACA survey illustrates the positive contributions that DACA recipients have made to America and reveals the significant, widespread disruptions that would result from ending DACA, highlighting more than ever the need for congressional action to provide pathways to citizenship for recipients.

Trump’s Big Ugly Megabill is a budget dream come true for billionaires and corporate lobbyists and a nightmare for states. The nearly 900-page bill poses brutal consequences, especially for working class people.

On July 4th, the President signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), a nearly 1,000-page bill that changes federal spending levels by stripping tens of millions of our most vulnerable neighbors of their health care and nutrition.

Though some of the details of the OBBBA were altered in the Senate from its original House-passed version, the overall impact remained largely the same: tax cuts for the rich, little change for the middle class, and punishing cuts for the poor.

In H.R. 1, the federal reconciliation bill, the federal government shirks its responsibility to Georgians, leaving the state to continue to support Georgians with fewer resources.

The passage of the inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill” is a loss for the country, not just because of immediate cost and economic harm it will cause families but because of the future we’re giving up. Slashing funding for programs that support individual and community well-being in order to cut taxes for the wealthy elite will most directly and immediately harm households with the fewest resources, but ultimately, everyone will lose out on a better future.