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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements attached to public benefits often ignore the structural barriers that many individuals face, such as systemic racism, sexism, and limited access to quality education and employment opportunities. Without economic mobility, families—particularly BIPOC families —are stuck in the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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Eliminating Hepatitis C: A Virus with Unequal Impact

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash It has been nearly a decade since medical science provided a cure for hepatitis C (hep-C), a potentially deadly viral infection that affects the liver and can lead to severe health complications if untreated. We are squandering one of the most important medical advances of the 21st century.”

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Household income is a strong indicator of several other social outcomes, including educational attainment and health. Drug war reparations would similarly acknowledge the harm inflicted on communities, and—critically—provide progress toward breaking cycles of poverty and family disruption, and promote social and economic mobility.

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The Silent Epidemic Killing Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent report in the Lancet medical journal explores the racial inequities in homicide rates using data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System to analyze homicide rates of Black women between the ages of 25 and 44 in 30 states across the country. “To

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Abolish the US Child Welfare System: A Conversation with Alan Dettlaff

NonProfit Quarterly

In reality, more than 70 percent of children in foster care today are in foster care because of what the system calls neglect, which is largely related to poverty issues. Mandatory reporting laws shifted the nature of child welfare services from poverty relief to investigation and surveillance. But I don’t think that’s widely known.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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

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Sustainable Solutions to Population Growth: Balancing Act For a Greener Future

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

We’ll also talk about the role of education, healthcare , development aid, and advocacy and policy efforts in managing population growth and encouraging sustainable practices. Socioeconomic Issues : Rapid growth can exacerbate poverty, inequality, and social unrest.