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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. 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. Let’s look at the private path first.