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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion”—a figure comparable to the total value of the US’ Black-White racial wealth gap. Valuing and compensating women’s work on behalf of loved ones affected by incarceration will be an especially pivotal task in the coming period of decarceration. Of this figure, roughly $73.9 2 (2012): 216–43. Gordon Parker et al.,

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing.