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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained. The rhetoric of the U.S.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time. Take Jeff Bezos.