Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. For example, the Australian Medical Association’s recent health vision is a departure from a tradition of what they call “sickcare” to a genuine health care. instead prioritizes creating and sustaining health over curing diseases. Medicine 2.0
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Yet, nearly all low-wage workers in the city are rent-burdened , with 25 percent of children within the city limits living in poverty. As many people struggle to survive, homelessness increased last year by 12 percent. Housing security is public health. New York City is home to the most millionaires in the world.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 12, 2023
Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 21, 2024
Even a short stint of incarceration has been reported to cause lasting damage to one’s health. The Deeper Impacts of Incarceration Over 3,000 women were pregnant when they were sent to prison and most were without health insurance at the time. Many large states only have one prison facility for women, making visitations much harder.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 1, 2023
7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay.
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