Action Alert for Nonprofits – May 2025
Add your nonprofit’s voice and sign onto a letter to Congress to reject harmful budget cuts to health care, food assistance and other basic needs services.
Protecting Medicaid – February 2025
Take action to put a stop to federal cuts to Medicaid that if enacted, would jeopardize health care and services for more than a million Minnesotans.
Medicaid Defense Toolkit – April 2025
The Medicaid Defense Toolkit has ready-to-use messages and resources to support actions to protect Medicaid and the health care our communities count on.
Issue Highlight – November 2024
Minnesota families deserve affordable child care so that kids can get off to a good start, parents can work or go to school, and all families can thrive.
Featured Publication – May 2024
Advance periodic payments making the Child Tax Credit better for family budgets
The Latest
Brief
The economic and fiscal impacts of mass deportation: what’s at risk in Minnesota
April 28, 2025 • Carly Eckstrom
Federal Issues, Immigration, Income and Inclusive Economy
Key findings: Some areas of the Minnesota state economy that will be impacted include: The Trump Administration has already begun… Continue reading The economic and fiscal impacts of mass deportation: what’s at risk in Minnesota
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Governor Walz’s revised FY 2026-27 budget proposal makes some additional changes as budget conditions tighten
April 22, 2025 • Minnesota Budget Project
Child Care, Health Care, Minnesota Budget, Minnesota Taxes
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State’s February Budget Forecast shows challenges facing Minnesota, which will worsen if Congress makes big funding cuts
April 2, 2025 • Carly Eckstrom
Minnesota Budget, Minnesota Budget Outlook
Featured
Investing in affordable child care so Minnesota families can find the care they need
Great Start Affordability Scholarships are a new policy solution designed to lower monthly child care costs for Minnesota families. Find out how they work to make quality child care more accessible and push to create equitable, living wages for early childhood educators.
Our Work
Minnesota Budget Project
The Minnesota Budget Project is a research and advocacy organization that pursues policy solutions so that all Minnesotans can thrive, regardless of who they are or where they live. Established more than 25 years ago, the Minnesota Budget Project is a nonpartisan project of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Our work is centered on equitable and just public policies so that all Minnesotans have what they need to pursue full and free lives. We focus primarily on tax, budget, and economic policies.
