NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 104

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Poverty Governance Insurance 89

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. EHRP is part of the dystopian social safety net.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 85

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Black women hold diverse and nuanced socioeconomic and political identities, and as such, our policies targeting racial and gender inequality must be flexible and adaptable. This is a core tenet of racially just policies and programs. They currently live in public housing, and the pathway to homeownership is filled with barriers.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Homelessness 92

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me.

Manufacturing 141

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Food, Bills, and Rent The 2021 expanded child tax credit—passed by Congress in March 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act —was as monumental as it was brief. The fact that child poverty was then essentially doubled again, overnight, as the tax credit was allowed to expire at the end of 2021, received less fanfare.)

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 85