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The Social Contract: What’s Missing in the “Historic” Biden Legislation?

NonProfit Quarterly

Research/development, manufacturing, workforce. trillion bill, which is only true if you count the $650 billion for roads and infrastructure that was already law before the bill’s passage. Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. Long-term care.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results. But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, if the version passed in May by House Republicans becomes law, make an already inequitable economy even less equitable. Nonprofits should help educate health systems, local officials, and businesses on the long-term costs of cutting Medicaid—social, economic, and moral.”

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

The same logic applies to food, health, and childcare benefits, as well as resumed student loan paymentsall of which affected millionssometimes tens of millionsof people. But none of these proposals became law. Taxation also did not significantly change. High enough, in fact, to push millions of families back into poverty.