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The State of Prison Reform: A Conversation with Nazgol Ghandnoosh

NonProfit Quarterly

In this interview with NPQ , The Sentencing Project’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, discusses the series, particularly the last installment, which examines how mass incarceration deepens inequality and harms public safety. RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. To change peoples’ material reality, however, means rehauling the entire operating system of our democracy, not just tinkering with its policies.

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How to End Wage Theft—and Advance Immigrant Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: venuestock on istock.com Nine years ago, the Economic Policy Institute reported that over $50 billion a year is stolen from workers nationally —that’s more than the cost of all robberies, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts combined. This theft occurs daily and disproportionately affects immigrant workers.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. The situation for extremely low-income homeowners was no better. A Collaborative Approach to Housing Justice.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Providing historic context that was rare elsewhere at the conference, Dr. Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Why Ending the Public Health Emergency Is Not Progress—And What Funders Can Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal government officially ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023. Even before the PHE status was lifted, some states had already entered the Medicaid “unwinding period,” ending the pandemic-specific policies that allowed continuous coverage for those enrolled.

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