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1 month ago | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Anne Price |Aine Creedon
This article is the first in a three-part series, Quiet Violence: How the Tax System Works Against Black Americans, co-produced by The Maven Collaborative and NPQ. This series explores how the taxation system’s “quiet violence” enacted against Black Americans leads not only to financial inequality but also to stolen legacies, futures, peace, and health—and presents solutions for equitable change. Most Americans view taxes as a necessary burden—a cost of living in a well-functioning society.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Jhumpa Bhattacharya |Anne Price
In Los Angeles and elsewhere across the country, your home's square footage used to be the ultimate reflection of wealth and status. But with soaring energy costs, skyrocketing insurance premiums and other factors moving buyers toward more modest homes, there's another measure of prosperity: the number of children you can afford.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
everand.com | Jhumpa Bhattacharya |Anne Price
In Los Angeles and elsewhere across the country, your home’s square footage used to be the ultimate reflection of wealth and status. But with soaring energy costs, skyrocketing insurance premiums and other factors moving buyers toward more modest homes, there’s another measure of prosperity: the number of children you can afford.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Jhumpa Bhattacharya |Anne Price
In Los Angeles and elsewhere across the country, your home’s square footage used to be the ultimate reflection of wealth and status. But with soaring energy costs, skyrocketing insurance premiums and other factors moving buyers toward more modest homes, there’s another measure of prosperity: the number of children you can afford.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Lora Smith |Steve Dubb |Anne Price
As NPQ moves into its two-week summer break, economic justice editor Steve Dubb highlights eight selected articles from the first seven months of 2024.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Tram Hoang |Meredith Klenkel |Lora Smith |Anne Price
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: How Policy Can Help Tenants Purchase Their Homes.” View the full webinar here. Tram Hoang: As we’re talking to other cities and states about how they’re building out their policies, I put it under four categories in terms of building the right ecosystem for the policy, because the policy must exist with infrastructure.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Lora Smith |Anne Price |Steve Dubb
For Earl Martin Phalen, a crucial part of leadership is giving back and paying it forward to those coming behind him. Placed into foster care after being born to a single mother, Phalen came into this world at a time when a front-page article in the Boston Globe claimed that 70 percent of Black boys in the Massachusetts foster care system would end up in prison by the time they were 21. Phalen, however, beat these odds.
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May 1, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel |Lora Smith |Anne Price |Steve Dubb
The past few years have seen a flurry of workers organizing across the country, from Starbucks and Amazon workers to new forms of cooperative ownership and governance sharing. NPQ’s column, We Stood Up, features the voices of people doing the hard work of realizing economic justice in their workplaces. These stories come from workers who want to share their experiences building a democratic economy and a fairer world so that others can learn from their efforts.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Meredith Klenkel |Anne Price |Steve Dubb
Precision medicine—which involves tailoring treatments based on specific characteristics of patients such as their genetic makeup—has long been touted as the answer to America’s failing healthcare system, but its inaccessibility continues to stymie its impact. There are compelling stories of people with cancer avoiding chemotherapy and radiation, which can have devastating effects on a person’s wellbeing.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Tonie Marie Gordon |Meredith Klenkel |Anne Price |Steve Dubb
A report released in March 2024, , reveals the challenges facing people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Despite having access to health benefits, many Americans delay care, with significant consequences for their physical health as well as their social and psychological wellbeing. Despite having a full-time job with health benefits, many study participants reported that they couldn’t afford the care they needed.
