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Funding to support Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (Mass Budget) to produce non-partisan policy research, analysis, and data-driven recommendations focused on improving the lives of low- and middle-income children and adults, strengthening the state’s economy, and enhancing the quality of life in Massachusetts. Mass Budget’s non-partisan research is relied on by active citizens, the media, grassroots and issue organizations, and policy makers. It helps those with limited resources to join critical debates with the information they need to make their voices heard. On important issues ranging from tax policy to health care to the minimum wage, people using Mass Budget's research have transformed public debates and have achieved outcomes that are directly improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across the Commonwealth. Mass Budget aligns with the Foundation’s commitment to strong community prevention and care infrastructure by ensuring that the interests of low- and moderate-income people are front and center in the state’s public debate on health care and other important issues. Grant funds will be used to support general operating support for Mass Budget.