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State legislatures are challenging nonprofit hospital tax exemptions, questioning whether hospitals deliver enough community benefit to justify billions in foregone tax revenue.
Millions of gig workers face a complicated tax season as reclassification battles leave their contractor status legally uncertain and their filing options unclear.
Mid-size employers face steep health plan cost increases with few options to control spending, squeezing budgets and forcing difficult trade-offs on hiring and wages.
Federal return-to-office mandates are pushing commuters back onto transit systems that spent years cutting services and drawing down pandemic relief funds.
Private credit funds have raised over $1.4 trillion, displacing banks as middle-market companies seek faster, more flexible financing solutions.
Homebuilder permit pullbacks are creating a looming supply gap that will squeeze buyers and renters well into 2026, with no quick fix in sight.
Childcare worker wages have barely moved in years while turnover climbs and centers struggle to stay staffed. The sector’s broken funding model is driving a slow-motion crisis.
America’s egg-laying flock is slowly rebuilding after avian flu devastation, but biology, biosecurity rules, and persistent H5N1 risk keep full recovery out of reach.
Private credit funds are rapidly replacing banks in infrastructure financing as regulatory pressure forces lenders to retreat. Here’s how the shift is reshaping capital markets.
Rising student loan defaults are forcing upward revisions to federal credit budget estimates, exposing deep structural weaknesses in how the government accounts for loan losses.
Tariffs pushed companies to reshore production, but softening consumer demand is now threatening the financial logic behind those domestic manufacturing bets.
Visa sponsorship freezes are quietly reshaping high-skill hiring, trapping workers and rerouting global talent away from U.S. employers and cities.
Contract disputes between dock workers and port operators have frozen automation rollouts at major U.S. ports, with billions in planned investment now on hold pending unresolved labor negotiations.
