NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. percent poverty rate (as of 2001). This farm supports 20 immigrant and refugee farmers and emerging food entrepreneurs.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues. I kicked off our discussion with some stats around the market. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

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Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 88

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

An example of this was profiled at NPQ in 2019, when we published a detailed study about the closure of a food co-op that had opened three years before in a Black community in Greensboro, NC. But this left a market gap. To the extent dollar stores drive out grocery stores, residents’ access to healthy food is reduced.

Retail 126

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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. Black Lives Matter or Pride Month marketing campaigns might lead us to believe these movements are attracting all the funding they need, but they are not.

Public and Social Policy 119

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

15 Today’s economy places a premium on being able to access social networks to jump from job to job, which reinforces existing privilege, because the very definition of social networks in the job market depends on having connections in high places. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

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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?

Poverty 96

Poverty Children Law Food 96

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Given this, it’s unsurprising that the student loan market is notoriously opaque, as Marian Conway observed recently in NPQ , resulting in complicated terms that capitalize on borrowers’ unpaid interest. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Education Education Public and Nonprofit Management 120