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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Unexpected evidence of this comes from demographer Christopher Wildeman’s rigorous investigation of the population-level health consequences of mass incarceration. Wildeman examined the relationship between changes in the national imprisonment rate and changes in American life expectancy, a central indicator of overall population health.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. That is why capital does not take into consideration the health or the length of life of the worker, unless society forces it to do so.” There really is a progressive climate politics under construction right now. isn’t a democracy.”.