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Banking and Community: A Conversation with Oscar Perry Abello

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. The local bank has insured FDIC deposits. It has] FDIC insurance just like a regular bank.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. 10 Only 35.1 24 Meanwhile, as of 2022, 17.1

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What’s at Stake with Threatened Federal Cuts to CDFIs?

NonProfit Quarterly

An executive order (14238)calls for reducing the CDFI Fundto the minimum presence and function required by law. In contrast, CDFIs aim to achieve community development outcomes , such as reducing poverty, increasing homeownership, or stimulating small businesses in distressed areas. What impact this order will have remains unclear.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

Many find inspiration in the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American cancer patient whose tumor cells were taken without her consent in 1951leading to a multibillion dollar industry, while her family and descendants dealt with poverty. Without regulation, this commercialization could worsen inequities in clinical research.

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Rethinking EMTALA: What Idaho’s Battle over Abortion Means for Reproductive Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

This law requires hospitals to conduct screenings for emergency medical conditions when requested by patients and to either provide stabilizing treatment or arrange for transfer to another facility if they cannot offer such care, or if the patient requests it. But ongoing legal challenges have raised concerns about the statute’s future.

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How Poverty Violence Shows Whose Lives Are “Worth” More in America

NonProfit Quarterly

On a rainy day, Echol Cole and Robert Walker sought refuge inside the truck because segregation laws forbid them from sheltering inside a building. Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Contempt for poverty is violence. Ghetto housing is violence.

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Supreme Court Considers Whether States May Prevent People Covered by Medicaid from Choosing Planned Parenthood as Their Healthcare Provider

NonProfit Quarterly

But the Supreme Court is weighing whether people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance have that right, and if they dois it enforceable by law? Congress passed the law that led to its creation based on its power under the Constitutions spending clause, which allows Congress to subject federal funds to certain requirements.