Miscellaneous
The deadline is fast approaching for Congress to reach an agreement on the looming budget crisis. If they fail to come to the table, $126 billion in automatic spending cuts will happen this fall. Nonprofits rely on federal funding to support their communities and need Congress to act quickly. New evidence has been found about the motivation behind the citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month and parties are awaiting indication on whether this new evidence will be considered. State legislatures have been making policy changes helping nonprofits. Arizona passed a nonitemizer deduction, so all taxpayers can benefit from giving to charitable nonprofits. The Minnesota Governor signed a bill that decouples state taxes on both nonprofit transportation benefits and on each separate trade or business. Bills to decouple nonprofit transportation benefits await signature in Hawaii and Illinois. And Massachusetts nonprofit human services workers went to a joint committee of the Legislature to tell their stories of how student loan debt was accrued on their path to the work that they love.