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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

The narrative roots of attaching work requirements to public benefits have been developing since the racist and sexist ideologies of slavery in the United States. That’s not career development. A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. Instead, it looks as though the management and administrative duties associated with Jackson’s water are likely to become privatized.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. These are the things people brought to their healthcare providers. And it was only when that first line of defense didn’t work that we would go to what we describe as “the healthcare system.” And that has guided my work.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

It is estimated that, with this change, 15 million people could lose this essential healthcare coverage , bringing the most harm to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, and poor people. Activist and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha calls this “ The Great Forgetting.” He writes, We are not a monolith.

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Eliminating Hepatitis C: A Virus with Unequal Impact

NonProfit Quarterly

times as likely to develop an infection and twice as likely to die from hep-C as non-Latinx Whites, according to the US Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Minority Health. Black, Latinx, and Asian Americans were less likely to receive treatment for the disease.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. These statistics hold true across time and national boundaries (Brennan et al.