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How Strict Abortion Laws Funnel Pregnant People Deeper into Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

Strict abortion laws funnel people further into poverty by forcing many people to carry pregnancies to term but doing little to care for the children once they are born. Strict abortion laws funnel people further into poverty by forcing many people to carry pregnancies to term but doing little to care for the children once they are born.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty. But because of narratives about what poor people and people of color deserve, they are relegated to jobs that perpetuate cycles of poverty and disenfranchisement. They’re effective.

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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. Perhaps even more concerning, of those who do not have insurance, nearly half have a chronic condition.

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How to Attract Childcare Workers? Virginia Tries Fast Training and Higher Pay

NonProfit Quarterly

The Center for American Progress wrote in a 2021 report, “Parents who spend thousands of dollars each year on child care are often surprised to hear that their children’s teachers make poverty-level wages.” A 2015 report found nearly 15 percent of childcare workers live in poverty, a rate more than double that of other jobs.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

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New Report Looks at Women’s Incarceration in America

NonProfit Quarterly

The Deeper Impacts of Incarceration Over 3,000 women were pregnant when they were sent to prison and most were without health insurance at the time. The report finds that 80 percent of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caregivers of their children.

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Action Steps to Grow Climate-Driven Philanthropy in Rural Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, in Robeson County, where almost three-quarters of residents are Black or Indigenous, many continue to experience poverty and hunger because they lack the support necessary to return from devastating, increasingly frequent climate events.