NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The lack of income earned by Black men’s mass incarceration plunged many Black families into poverty for decades, caused the loss of homeownership, and eliminated other opportunities for Black families to build wealth over the long term. As a social and economic issue, the devastation is still being felt.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Even philanthropists working on the economic issues of jobs and incomes tend to sidestep the root problem of how to strengthen an economy’s productive capabilities. It diverts our attention from the core challenge of building high-value production, which developing countries themselves know is the key to their prosperity.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. Proponents of this positive psychology movement argue that poor people should not be “completely defined by their poverty, nor can they be fully understood in its terms alone.”
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
She called on other corporations to likewise support CDFIs to enable them to better address pressing economic issues, such as poverty, housing, and food insecurity. At a panel on rural poverty, Dana Bezerra, president of the Heron Foundation , called for shifts of narrative and power. “We Where are the supermarket chains?”
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord.
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