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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Hot Topics in Health Equity.

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What’s the State of Play in Child Tax Credit Negotiations?

NonProfit Quarterly

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?

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.” A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, homelessness reached record highs in the United States in 2022, affecting over 500,000 people.

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More Than Just a Structure: The Myriad Impacts of Black Women’s Exclusion from Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

They are the predictable consequences of racist and sexist public policies and banking practices that intentionally exclude Black Americans—and Black women specifically—from homeownership as a pathway to economic and emotional stability. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. A house is far more than a structure.

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

The new benefit reached some 60 million children (including 26 million children previously ineligible for the full benefit) and was widely credited with cutting child poverty in the United States by nearly half—overnight. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.

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How to Fight Power by Building Power

NonProfit Quarterly

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. To counter corporations’ outsized and unchecked power grab, we need more than public policy fights, community benefits agreements, and harm reduction.

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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

But to respond effectively, it is important to understand dollar stores’ growing importance, how communities are responding, and how public policy might better support community-based businesses. On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas.

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