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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With this, I’m trying to get at the way insecurity is not just exacerbated but generated by our economic and social conditions. At the beginning of the book, I say that manufactured insecurity is a feature of any hierarchical social arrangement, not just capitalism. If we don’t have public transit, we take an Uber.

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