NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Public policy, however, can make a tremendous difference. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. What Happened to the Child Tax Credit After 2021?

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Poverty Children Law Food 92

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Although rates of homeownership have improved for households headed by Black women, homeownership is not an automatic financial wealth builder for Black people, who still possess little to no wealth (across educational levels). Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. A house is far more than a structure. These results are no accident.

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Poverty Health Public Policy Values 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

Public and Social Policy 66

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Poverty 66

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Wealth differences widen dramatically as Black Americans become more educated. In next week’s final installment of Locked Out, we’ll examine both private and public solutions to achieve an equitable housing economy for all. Her prior advocacy work includes positions in immigrant rights, global health, and at the UN Refugee Agency.

Public Policy 92

Public Policy Health Poverty Associations 92

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 114

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 115

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression?

Leadership 99

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 99