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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

This money is effectively sequestered until the government deems a project worth investing in, which often means the money goes to wealthly, mostly White developers for megaprojects that do more harm than good to the surrounding communities. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging.

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Can Taxes Reduce Inequality? What a Study of State and Local Taxes Tells Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018. What Is State Taxation Like Today? A Progressive Path Can state taxation be progressive?

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Looking for Tax Money in All the Wrong Places: Structural Racism at the IRS

NonProfit Quarterly

The credit amount depends on the individual’s tax-filing status, the number of children that they support, and income. As with most injustices in our economic and political systems, regressive taxation has hit BIPOC and low-income Americans the hardest. For 2022, the credit ranged from $569 to $6,935.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

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4 forces primarily responsible for making people charitable

iMarketSmart

Skepticism about the government’s involvement in people’s economic lives. Between 1933 and 1939, as spending to aid the needy went from zero to more than 4% of GDP, researchers concluded that government funds were directly responsible for nearly all the drop in church charity. Strong families. Individual entrepreneurism.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is a credible generalization that men’s lifelong role in paid work, traditionally and previously imagined as “the breadwinner,” gives them less exposure to the socialization and social skills implicit in traditional women’s roles like bearing and nurturing children and caring for relatives. But they can’t operate in a void.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.