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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. Of course, the drug war is not the only reason why reparations are required.

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Boston’s Fare-Free Bus Experiment

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yassine Khalfalli on unsplash.com This is the sixth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus.

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Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

NonProfit Quarterly

All told, CDFIs—including not just loan funds, but also community development credit unions, banks, bank holding companies, and venture funds —have $266 billion in assets, according to a 2020 study from the US Social Investment Forum. This number is sure to rise when new data are announced this December. Where are consumer product companies?

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

With this, I’m trying to get at the way insecurity is not just exacerbated but generated by our economic and social conditions. At the beginning of the book, I say that manufactured insecurity is a feature of any hierarchical social arrangement, not just capitalism. If we don’t have public transit, we take an Uber.