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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

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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Across the Country, Poor and Low-Wage Voters Are Organizing

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Her death is the result of policy choices,” Lawrence said.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Getting our housing system to work better for all—especially for families of color who have long experienced discrimination and bias—will require a long-term concerted endeavor with coordinated efforts from a broad host of public, private, and community actors. The Annie E. A Collaborative Approach to Housing Justice.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%. Children and youth – 10%. Human and social services – 8%. Education and literacy – 5%. Research and public policy – 1%. Public media and communications – 0%. LGBTQIA+ – 1%.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

All we’ve been doing is emailing and maybe if we weren’t socially distanced, we would have met each other already. They have children, they’re doing all of this. if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. But you’re awesome.

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Abolish the US Child Welfare System: A Conversation with Alan Dettlaff

NonProfit Quarterly

NPQ : In your book, you make a point of connecting the idea of “family separation,” as it occurs all the time in the present-day child welfare system when children are put under the custody of the state, to the widely criticized family separation immigration policy of the Trump administration. But I don’t think that’s widely known.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

Identity politics is everywhere—and so are its political critics, from white nationalists and their right-wing apologists to leftists who want to talk about class but not race, gender, or other social identities and differences. When this is the case, what, if anything, is worth salvaging from identity politics?